New Technologies in Clinical Microbiology

New technologies in clinical microbiology

Introducing New Laboratory-Developed Molecular Methods in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratories

New technologies in clinical ultrasound.

Ultrasound (US) is the imaging modality of choice for a wide variety of clinical indications because of its excellent image quality combined with lack of ionizing radiation, relative portability, and low cost. Numerous advances in US technology over the past fewdecades, such as color and power Doppler, speckle reduction, compound imaging, harmonic imaging, and 3-D imaging have become the standa...

Anaerobes in Clinical Microbiology

During the past decade Ihe clinical spectrum of anaerobic in fection has been redefined, inilially largely by workers in the USA ' but later with con tribut ions from Britain,2·3 after many years of neglect. However, even as it was defined it changed. The infections lollowing large-bowel surgery which received most attention are now much less common because 01 the effectiveness 01 prophylactic ...

Tohcs in Clinical Microbiology

The clinical importance of coagulase-positive staphylococci is well-known. In fact, Staphylococcus aureus is so often considered a pathogen that few laboratories appreciate that up to 25% of these strains isolated from blood cultures are actually contaminants from skin flora.' Conversely, coagulase-negative staphylococci have so long been considered an environmental contaminant that the pathoge...