Promising New Assays and Technologies for the Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diseases

• Published in: Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 56; no. 7; pp. 996 - 1002
• Main Authors: Mitsuma, S. F., Mansour, M. K., Dekker, J. P., Kim, J., Rahman, M. Z., Tweed-Kent, A., Schuetz, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.04.2013
• Series: Editor's choice
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Bioassays; Biological and medical sciences; Biotechnology; Blood; Clinical Laboratory Techniques - methods; Clinical Laboratory Techniques - trends; Communicable Diseases - diagnosis; Disease management; Gene expression profiling; Human Genome Project; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Lasers; Mass spectroscopy; Medical diagnosis; Medical sciences; Nucleic acids; Pathogens; Review; REVIEW ARTICLE; RNA; Infection; Clinical management; Diagnosis

In the first decade of the 21st century, we have seen the completion of the human genome project and marked progress in the human microbiome project. The vast amount of data generated from these efforts combined with advances in molecular and biomedical technologies have led to the development of a...