Molecular Approaches to Diagnosing and Managing Infectious Diseases: Practicality and Costs
Open Access
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 7 (2), 312-318
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0702.010234
Abstract
As molecular techniques for identifying and detecting microorganisms in the clinical microbiology laboratory have become routine, questions about the cost of these techniques and their contribution to patient care need to be addressed. Molecular diagnosis is most appropriate for infectious agents that are difficult to detect, identify, or test for susceptibility in a timely fashion with conventional methods.Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Molecular epidemiology in the care of patients.Published by Wiley ,1999
- Impact of viral load testing on patient care.Published by Wiley ,1999
- Financial determinants of outcomes in molecular testing.Published by Wiley ,1999
- Application of Polymerase Chain Reaction to the Diagnosis of Infectious DiseasesClinical Infectious Diseases, 1999
- Genetic Methods for Assessing Antimicrobial ResistanceAntimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1999
- Medical and Economic Benefit of a Comprehensive Infection Control Program That Includes Routine Determination of Microbial ClonalityAmerican Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1999
- Preventing antibiotic resistance using rapid DNA-based diagnostic tests.1998
- Sexual Transmission of an HIV-1 Variant Resistant to Multiple Reverse-Transcriptase and Protease InhibitorsThe New England Journal of Medicine, 1998
- The clinical microbiology laboratory and infection control: emerging pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, and new technology.Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1997
- Sequence-based identification of microbial pathogens: a reconsideration of Koch's postulates.1996