id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016020-awanrm9u Fox, Julie D. Respiratory Pathogens 2007 .txt text/plain 4603 220 30 In addition, despite the well-recognized association of viral infections with upper and lower respiratory tract infections, the current diagnostic virology procedures do not provide an answer rapidly enough to with parainfluenza virus type 4, human coronaviruses, rhinoviruses, and some enteroviruses would not ordinarily be identified without RNA detection methods. Published diagnostic methods for detection of respiratory pathogen DNA or RNA directly from clinical specimens utilize target amplification procedures such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA).Although direct detection methods based on nucleic acid hybridization would be theoretically possible, the amount of target nucleic acid in specimens may be minimal and such methods would lack sensitivity compared to amplification methods, unless the organism was propagated before analysis. Thus, the molecular amplification procedures reported for direct detection of respiratory pathogens in clinical samples include PCR (e.g., Reference 19 and Figure 41 assays have utilized bacterial ribosomal RNA (rRNA; e.g., Reference 22 ). ./cache/cord-016020-awanrm9u.txt ./txt/cord-016020-awanrm9u.txt