PE Biosystems has developed guidelines enabling streamlined design and implementation of real-time quantitative PCR assays. The use of these guidelines makes it easy to apply either the fluorogenic 5 ́ nuclease assay or SYBR Green I double-stranded DNA binding dye chemistry to any real-time quantitative PCR system. Specific assay design and optimization guidelines minimize the time and cost of a...

PE Biosystems has developed guidelines enabling streamlined design and implementation of real-time quantitative PCR assays. The use of these guidelines makes it easy to apply either the fluorogenic 5 ́ nuclease assay or SYBR Green I double-stranded DNA binding dye chemistry to any real-time quantitative PCR system. Specific assay design and optimization guidelines minimize the time and cost of a...

Background: Leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis widespread in tropical and temperate countries with low social-economic status. We aimed to compare an ELISA kit with an in-house ELISA assay to test the serum samples of the patients who were suspicious of leptospirosis according to their clinical symptoms. Methods: A total of 282 serum samples of patients suspicious of leptospirosis admitt...

Conventional Western blot based pull-down methods involve lengthy and laborious work and the results are generally not quantitative. Here, we report the imaging beads-retained prey (IBRP) assay that is rapid and quantitative in studying protein-protein interactions. In this assay, the bait is immobilized onto beads and the prey is fused with a fluorescence protein. The assay takes advantage of ...

objectives: human cytomegalovirus (cmv) is a major life-threatening pathogen for hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. specific tests are used for the diagnosis and monitoring of cmv infection in transplant patients. this study evaluates the performance of pp65 antigenemia and qualitative pcr assays for monitoring cmv in such patients. methods: we analyzed 179 clinical samples from 41...

List of original publications 7 Abbreviations 8 Summary 9 Review of the literature 10 1. Human cytomegalovirus 10 1.1. Virus structure and genome organization 10 1.2. Virus replication 10 1.3. Epidemiology and transmission 11 1.4. Pathogenesis 12 2. Human cytomegalovirus infections in organ transplant patients 14 2.1. Clinical manifestations 14 2.2. Prevention and treatment of HCMV disease 15 2...

A quantitative particle agglutination assay using mobile holographic imaging and deep learning is demonstrated for point-of-care testing.