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conventional methods for fungal identification in the clinical laboratory rely on morphological andphysiological tests. these tests often need several days or weeks to complete and are frequentlyunspecific. molecular identification mostly implies sequencing, which is relatively expensive andtime-consuming, as well as impractical for large numbers of isolates. the rolling circleamplification app...

There is no need to try to ease into the discussion because the issue being discussed here is too involved to waste words that way. It is important to get right to the point. The starting premise is that we seek to understand the world in which we live. This leads immediately to a whole set of related premises that define the problem as being the answer to the question “how we can obtain that w...