Clinical microbiology
Evaluation of the Sirscan Automated Zone Reader in a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... Comparison of zone sizes measured by a Sirscan automated reader with those measured by caliper. Over a 4-month period, 368 fresh clinical isolates were tested prospectively by both methods in the Clinical ...
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Controversies Affecting the Future Practice of Clinical Microbiology
... traditional clinical microbiology ...(36). Microbiology should be a part of the integration effort when- ever ...some microbiology tests or test components could be successfully ...of ...
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Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... medicine. Clinical practice guidelines are an important outgrowth of the concept of evidence-based med- ...developed clinical practice guidelines that directly affect the practice of diagnostic ...
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Point Counterpoint: Consolidated Clinical Microbiology Laboratories
... The clinical microbiology laboratories at the institutions com- pleted the process of consolidating services and achieved goals of increasing provision of clinically relevant results to health care ...
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The Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Director in the United States Hospital Setting
... perform clinical re- search is a challenge in today’s streamlined, financially efficient ...one microbiology laboratory director to oversee all clinical testing and reporting and also to recruit ...
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Biomedical Mass Spectrometry in Today's and Tomorrow's Clinical Microbiology Laboratories
... Reference databases require continual updating as new infor- mation is accumulated. Database expansion with the addition of more diverse and biodiverse strains leads to a more robust iden- tification tool. The ...
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Clinical Impact Associated with Corrected Results in Clinical Microbiology Testing
... in clinical microbi- ology testing. In clinical microbiology testing, there is heavy reliance on manual work and subjective interpretation, whereas laboratory analyses in sections such as chemistry ...
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Surge Capacity for Response to Bioterrorism in Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratories
... in clinical laboratory science and the funding of initiatives to increase the ability of accredited pro- grams to increase ...in clinical microbiology, such as packing biohazardous materials for ...
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Point Counterpoint: The Automated Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Fact or Fantasy?
... Diagnostic microbiology manufacturers are betting that robotics will be used for specimen processing, plate read- ing, and organism identification in the near ...requisite clinical microbiology ...
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Response of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory to Emerging (New) and Reemerging Infectious Diseases
... of Clinical Microbiology from 2000 through 2003 which evaluated real- time PCR as a test method for pathogen detection and/or identification of genes or mutations associated with antimicro- bial resistance ...
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A Genomic Day in the Life of a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... enhancing clinical microbiology workflow, decreasing patient length of stay, and re- ducing hospital costs ...a clinical microbiology laboratory to identify unknown ...the clinical ...
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Applications of MALDI TOF MS in Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... Uses of MALDI-TOF in clinical microbiology: MALDI- TOF MS can be routinely used for microbial identification and strain typing of bacteria, fungi and viruses. It can be also used for epidemiological ...
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Novel applications of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in clinical microbiology
... The standardization of MALDI-TOF MS platforms has paved the way for routine applications of mass spectrometry in clinical microbiology laboratories. Due to intrinsic low resolution and moderate sensitivity, ...
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Lowering the Barriers to Routine Whole Genome Sequencing of Bacteria in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... in clinical micro- ...Currently, clinical microbiology laboratories do not routinely interrogate ...the clinical utility of identifying and reporting ...routine clinical ...
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What Happened to Research in Clinical Microbiology in the United States?
... measure clinical microbiol- ogy research in the United States is the number of manuscripts published by authors employed by American institutions in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM), which ...
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Clinical Microbiology in the Year 2025
... There have been several interesting developments in the field of laboratory medicine and clinical microbiology follow- ing the release of the CyberPath system and three other com- peting point-of-care ...
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Automation in Clinical Microbiology
... the clinical chemistry and clinical hematology areas of diagnos- tic laboratories, clinical microbiology laboratories have largely been excluded from this ...in microbiology ...
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A Critical Appraisal of the Role of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections
... publication. Microbiology laboratories would also be supported in these efforts by the development of comprehen- sive practice guidelines that come from the microbiology com- munity and parallel those of ...
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New Technologies in Clinical Microbiology
... Both mass spectrometry methods leverage the high sensitiv- ity of mass spectrometry with links to large microbial data- bases, which enable users to obtain species-specific spectra that can be used to reproducibly ...
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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
... Once all the material intended for publication has been determined to be adequate, the manuscript is scheduled for the next available issue and an acceptance letter indicating the month [r] ...
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