This book offers a detailed guide for setting up and operating a
molecular diagnostic laboratory, including step-by-step protocols for
diagnostic assays, criteria for choice of molecular test, and a description of quality requirements for the lab.

Not another textbook, but a valuable tool for doctors and microbiologists wanting to know how to set up a PCR diagnostic microbiology laboratory according to current regulatory standards and perform assays supplied with patient clinical diagnostic criteria and easy to follow protocols. Whether laboratories are using commercial kits or in-house methods developed in their own laboratories or adopted from published methods, all clinical microbiology laboratories need to be able to understand, critically evaluate, perform and interpret these tests according to rigorous and clinically appropriate...