Institut f~r Laboratoriumsund Transfusionsmedizin, Herzund Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Universit~itsklinik der Ruhr-Universit~it Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany The application of nested PCR in medical diagnostics implies that the same type of reaction is performed repetitively in the same laboratory over long periods of time, such as in the longitudinal monitoring of immunosuppressed ...