Differential susceptibility of PCR reactions to inhibitors: an important and unrecognised phenomenon

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>PCR inhibition by nucleic acid extracts is a well known yet poorly described phenomenon. Inhibition assessment generally depends on the assumption that inhibitors affect all PCR reactions to the same extent; i.e. that the reaction of...

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Main Authors: Miller Robert F, Morris-Jones Stephen D, Green Clare, Garson Jeremy A, Novak Tanya, Huggett Jim F, Zumla Alimuddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-08-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/1/70