Evaluation of the alkaline wash/lysis pr
✍
Sheng-Chuan Hsi; Jun-Ren Sun; Tzong-Shi Chiueh
📂
Article
📅
2010
🏛
John Wiley and Sons
🌐
English
⚖ 104 KB
## Abstract Blood culture is commonly used to detect microorganisms in patients with a suspected blood infection. This study evaluated the alkaline wash/lysis procedure to extract DNA of microorganisms in a clinical blood culture. A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the 16S rDNA (