New technologies in clinical microbiology

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

The Conceptualization of Value in the Value Proposition of New Health Technologies; Comment on “Providing Value to New Health Technology: The Early Contribution of Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Regulatory Agencies”

Lehoux et al provide a highly valid contribution in conceptualizing value in value propositions for new health technologies and developing an analytic framework that illustrates the interplay between health innovation supply-side logic (the logic of emergence) and demand-side logic (embedding in the healthcare system). This commentary brings forth several considerations on this article. First, ...

Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Gastrointestinal Microbiota: A New Approach to Clinical Studies

Extracellular vesicles, naturally released from all cell types including bacteria, are of great importance in medical microbiology due to transporting a variety of biomaterials, enzymes, and virulence factors, regulating immunity, and having roles in colonization and initiation of signaling pathways. These vesicles are also secreted from microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract and affect the h...

New digital technologies for the surveillance of infectious diseases at mass gathering events.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases at mass gatherings can strain the health system of the host region and pose a threat to local and global health. In addition to strengthening existing surveillance systems, most host nations also use novel technologies to assess disease risk and augment traditional surveillance approaches. We review novel approaches to disease surveillance using the Internet, mo...

The value of outcomes data in the practice of clinical microbiology.

In the beginning, there were triple sugar iron (TSI) slants. These were followed by API strips; then came the Vitek machine and, after that, nucleic acid amplification. Today, we have matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS), and tomorrow, we will have next-generation sequencing. All of this developed over a 40-year period of time. Technology i...