Identification of Disease Causing Microorganisms by Using Molecular Biotechnology Techniques - A disease can be caused by a battery of microorganisms. In conventional diagnostic practice, identification of the causative organisms would require cultivation of samples on a variety of different media in a variety of different ways like microscopy, animal cell culture and immunoassay.

These procedures are time consuming, cumbersome and disparate. This whole set of disparate test procedures can be replaced with a single technology called hybridization.

Clearly, hybridization of the test sample with a battery of probes is more simple and less time consuming.