La technologie des puces à ADN : Veille microbiologique et émergences : aspects moléculaires, environnementaux et technologiques

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.