Has Aspergillus PCR Come to the Age of Maturity?

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Has Ultrasound Elastography come to the age of ripening?

Definitely, contrast and elastography have been the two words prevailing in the ultrasonography research literature of the last decade. Of these, elastography did cast a special charm over the researchers, due to its ever increasing number of technological approaches. A major role was also played by the adaptability of the method(s) to virtually all applications of ultrasonography and even the ...

Has antifungal susceptibility testing come of age?

The in vitro susceptibility of an infecting organism to the antimicrobial agent selected for therapy is one of several factors that influence the likelihood that therapy for an infection will be successful. To appreciate the value of antifungal susceptibility testing, it is helpful to review the overall predictive utility of antibacterial susceptibility testing. After >30 years of study, in vit...

Has C-Peptide Come of Age?

n this issue, a Consensus Statement on proinsulin Cpeptide is published summarizing the deliberations of an international group of investigators, who met in Detroit in October 2000. This was preceded by the 3rd International Motor City Symposium, the theme of which was concerned with the clinical and biological effects of C-peptide. The abstracts of the presentations at the Symposium are also p...

The Science of Eyewitness Testimony Has Come of Age.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Alfred Binet (1900), in his monographOn Suggestibility, envisaged (albeit only in a footnote) a ‘‘science of testimony’’—but he seems to have given up this endeavor when faced with administrative resistance from the legal system (Wolf, 1973). Louis William Stern, a student of Hermann Ebbinghaus, was more successful, by publishing his first experiments in a ...