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Emerging Microbiology Diagnostics for Transplant Infections: On the Cusp of a Paradigm Shift

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Emerging Microbiology Diagnostics for Transplant Infections: On the Cusp of a Paradigm Shift Transplantation In light of the heightened risk for infection associated with solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, rapid and accurate microbiology diagnostics are essential to the practice of transplant clinicians, including infectious diseases specialists. In the last decade, diagnostic microbiology has seen a shift toward culture-independent techniques including single-target and multiplexed molecular testing, mass-spectrometry, and magnetic resonance-based methods which have together greatly expanded the array of pathogens identified, increased processing speed and throughput, allowed for detection of resistance determinants, and ultimately improved the outcomes of infected transplant recipients. READ MORE

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