title: [DNA chip technology].
abstract: DNA chip technology has greatly evolved over the last decade and, associated with complete genome sequencing, is in the process of introducing a revolution into biological research. It is providing new and unique tools for studying emerging diseases outbreaks and epidemics. Nevertheless, microbiological surveillance, medical diagnosis, and field work involve a number of difficulties for which these new techniques have not yet been validated. Currently available chips are still limited in their application, but offer a powerful and economical alternative to former methods and will undoubtedly offer a range of unexplored applications in coming years.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de génomique des microorganismes pathogènes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Glaser
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grimont
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology; D004247:DNA; D006801:Humans; D008829:Microbiology; D008904:Miniaturization; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004247:DNA