Haematologica Reports 2005; 1(issue 5): 35-38
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New diagnostic tools
Maurizio
Sanguinetti
Catholic University of Sacred Heart Rome, Italy
Medical microbiology is a clinical discipline that evolves
slowly and the majority of diagnoses relies still upon demonstrable
growth of an infectious microorganism. However, various new
diagnostic technologies have been introduced into laboratory
practice over the past few decades.1 As recently stated
by Isenberg,2 molecular biology has the potential to
revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious disease in order to
optimize the care of infected patients, whether they are in
hospital or in the community. Molecular tests promise to be
extremely useful also in therapy, epidemiological investigations,
and infection control. [>Read full article in
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