Syndromic and Point-of-Care Molecular Testing

For decades, the clinical laboratory diagnosis of many infectious diseases relied solely on time-consuming and often labor-intensive manual cultivation-based, microscopic, and immunoserologic methods that required experienced technical personnel to perform and interpret. The introduction of semiautomated and fully automated microbial phenotyping systems in the later part of the 20th century vastly improved the processes of bacterial and yeast isolate workup by decreasing identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing turnaround times (TATs); however, the detection of many viruses and parasites still required traditional techniques.

Source: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine - November 9, 2022 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Ryan F. Relich, April N. Abbott Source Type: research