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PCR is a useful tool for early diagnosis of an infectious disease. Elaborate.

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PCR is a very sensitive technique which enables the amplification of desried DNA from a limited amouunt of DNA template.
Hence, it can detect the presence of an infectious organism in the infected patient at an early stage of infection (even before the organism has multiplied to large number)
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