Call for a quality standard for sequence-based assays in clinical microbiology: necessity for quality assessment of sequences used in microbial identification and typing.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on November 10, 2010

Authors

Anthony Underwood1, Jonathan Green

Author Affiliations

1: Bioinformatics Group, Microbiological Services Division (Colindale), Health Protection Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, United Kingdom. anthony.underwood@hpa.org.uk

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