Clinical microbiology: Should microbiology be a clinical or a laboratory speciality?
Clinical microbiology is a specific combination of knowledge, attitude and practice aimed at direct clinical involvement in infectious disease management using the core principles of medical microbiology and clinical medicine.
Bhattacharya Sanjay
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Automation in the clinical microbiology laboratory [PDF]
Automation in the clinical microbiology ...
Greub, Gilbert +9 more
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Molecular Diagnostics in Clinical Microbiology
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Willem B Leeuwen
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Driving Laboratory Standardization of Bacterial Culture and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology in Europe and Beyond [PDF]
Globally, antimicrobial resistance is one of the most important public health challenges in which the clinical microbiology laboratory plays a critical role by providing guidance for antimicrobial treatment.
Broens, Els M. +7 more
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Clinical Microbiology Informatics [PDF]
SUMMARY The clinical microbiology laboratory has responsibilities ranging from characterizing the causative agent in a patient's infection to helping detect global disease outbreaks. All of these processes are increasingly becoming partnered more intimately with informatics. Effective application of informatics tools can increase the accuracy,
Daniel D, Rhoads +3 more
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Automation in Clinical Microbiology [PDF]
Editor's Note: In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology , Paul Bourbeau and Nate Ledeboer provide an informed review of an exciting new concept in clinical microbiology, the use of instrumentation to automate the front-end processing and workup of specimens submitted to a laboratory for ...
Paul P, Bourbeau, Nathan A, Ledeboer
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The clinical microbiology laboratory relies on traditional diagnostic methods such as culturing, Gram stains, and biochemical testing. Receipt of a high-quality specimen with an appropriate test order is integral to accurate testing. Recent technological advancements have led to decreased time to results and improved diagnostic accuracy.
Pence, Morgan A., Liesman, Rachael
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Evaluation of the Performance of ASTA MicroIDSys, a Novel Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System, in Identification of Bacterial Clinical Isolates [PDF]
Background:We evaluated the performance of ASTA MicroIDSys (ASTA, Korea) and Bruker Biotyper (Bruker Daltonics, Germany) systems in the identification of bacterial isolates from clinical microbiology laboratory specimens during the study period.
정석훈, 김도균, 유창승
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How are trainees in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases supervised in Europe? An international cross-sectional questionnaire survey by the Trainee Association of ESCMID [PDF]
The purpose of this study was to map the supervision of European trainees in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases during their training. An international cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 38 questions was distributed among trainees and ...
Maraolo, Alberto E +11 more
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[Clinical microbiology]. [PDF]
The basic purpose of postgraduate education programs in clinical microbiology for the Board of Clinical Laboratory Physicians are mainly to bring up a specialist who can give microbiological laboratory diagnosis. The most important duties of clinical laboratory physicians are to determine causative agents and to select appropriate therapeutic drugs ...
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