Answer:
strength
Valuable for detecting specific pathogens that are difficult to culture in vitro or require a.
long cultivation period.
• Significantly more rapid in providing results compared to culturing.
o Enables earlier informed decision making.
weaknesses
Widely recognised limitations of amplification technology include those of false-positive and false-negative results, the difficulty of obtaining quantitative results, the problem of using this technology for susceptibility testing, and the difficulty of detecting routinely the wide range of possible pathogens ...