Although detection of hepatitis C virus RNA with polymerase chain reaction has become the standard for diagnosis, extensive application has been thwarted by polymerase chain reaction's labor intensiveness, risk of false-positive results through contamination and time required for individual assays.
Simultaneous detection of both hepatitis B virus DNA and hepatitis C virus RNA using a combined one-step polymerase chain reaction technique
โ Scribed by Ke-Qin Hu; Chang-Hong Yu; Sunny Lee; Federico G. Villamil; John M. Vierling
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 870 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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