Technology for Automated, Rapid, and Quantitative PCR or Reverse Transcription-PCR Clinical Testing
Author(s) -
Siva Raja,
Jesus Ching,
Liqiang Xi,
Steven J. Hughes,
Ronald Chang,
Wendy Wong,
William McMillan,
William E. Gooding,
Kenneth S. McCarty,
Melissa L. Chestney,
James D. Luketich,
Tony E. Godfrey
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2004.046474
Subject(s) - genexpert mtb/rif , rna , reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction , lung cancer , rna extraction , medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , gene , tuberculosis , gene expression , sputum , biochemistry
PCR-based assays can improve clinical care, but they remain technically demanding and labor-intensive. We describe a new instrument, the GeneXpert, that performs automated nucleic acid isolation, reverse transcription, and fluorescence-based quantitative PCR in approximately 35 min.
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