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British Medical Bulletin 61:97-114 (2002)
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Recent advances in the rapid diagnosis of respiratory tract infection

Childhood respiratory infections

Steven Myint

GlaxoSmithKline, Harlow and Leicester University, Leicester, UK

Molecular techniques have enabled major advances in the speed and sensitivity of the laboratory diagnosis of respiratory infections. Although the polymerase chain reaction is the most commonly used, there are several other methods available, which have applicability across the range of microbial pathogens.


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