• to the Polymerase Chain Reaction.- Setting Up a Polymerase Chain Reaction Laboratory.- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction and Melting Curve Analysis.- Qualitative and Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Methods for DNA Methylation Analyses.- In-Cell Polymerase Chain Reaction.- Qualitative and Quantitative DNA and RNA Analysis by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.- Analysis of Polymerase Chain Reaction Products by Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography.- Use of Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Detection of Fetal Aneuploidies.- Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis by Analysis of Fetal DNA in Maternal Plasma.- Clinical Applications of Plasma Epstein-Barr Virus DNA Analysis and Protocols for the Quantitative Analysis of the Size of Circulating Epstein-Barr Virus DNA.- Molecular Analysis of Circulating RNA in Plasma.- Molecular Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Point Mutations by Polymerase Chain Reaction.- Novel Applications of Polymerase Chain Reaction to Urinary Nucleic Acid Analysis.- Detection and Quantitation of Circulating Plasmodium falciparum DNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction.- Molecular Diagnosis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.- Genomic Sequencing of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus.

From the reviews: "...will be an important laboratory resource to those using PCR in the diagnosis of human diseases and should be of great interest to both molecular and clinical pathologists." -Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine "Each chapter is clearly written and provides enough background material to explain the significance and application of the procedure. The protocols include sufficient detail to enable the reader to develop the test. This manual will be an important laboratory resource to those using PCR in the diagnosis of human diseases and should be of great interest to both molecular and clinical pathologists."-Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine "...a unique document that will be welcome in the clinical laboratory as well as the research field." -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal "This book is pitched at both pathologists and microbiologists who use PCR in a diagnostic setting. It provides a user-friendly and relatively brief theoretical background to conventional and real-time PCR ... . This book should appeal to professional laboratory scientists and students ... as well as to more experienced individuals who want to use or extend specific applications. This book would be a useful purchase as a reference source and technical manual for diagnostic pathology and microbiology laboratories." (David Hampson, SGM- Society for General Microbiology, 2007)