... may inhabit. Multi-focus exercise valley fever fungal pathogen DNA extraction polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic PCR disease incidence soil parameters Coccidioides Valley fever, also known as coccidioidomycosis, is a disease that has been documented in California since...

... to these current, and now somewhat standard, techniques. To address this, we developed and successfully conducted a lab that links traditional microbiological techniques such as microscopy, with electrophoresis techniques based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Along with making students excited about...

... by National Association of Biology Teachers 2011 Microbiology educational initiatives polymerase chain reaction (PCR) universal primers molecular detection bacterial identification innovative teaching laboratories After teaching microbiology labs at numerous U.S. institutions, we noticed...