Eszter Deak,Elizabeth M Marlowe
Eszter Deak
Technology for modern clinical and public health microbiology laboratories has evolved at an impressive rate over the last two decades. Contemporary diagnostics can rapidly provide powerful data that can impact patient lives and support inf...
The Multipurpose Tool of Social Media: Applications for Scientists, Science Communicators, and Educators [0.03%]
社交媒体的多功能工具：科学家、科学传播者和教育者的应用指南
Julie M Wolf
Julie M Wolf
Social media has become the fastest way to disseminate new information, share personal experiences, and discuss scientific reports in an open-access setting. It acts as an aggregator of news and reports, a platform for education, a means of...
Legionella: a Fascinating Bacterium Uncovered in the Twentieth Century [0.03%]
二十世纪发现的Legionella——一种迷人的细菌
Paula H Vance,Fran Schaeffer,Ernest Trevino et al.
Paula H Vance et al.
In July 1976, the American Legion held a conference at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, PA, to celebrate the nation's bicentennial. This convention resulted in transmission of a gram-negative bacterium to over 200 attendees, wh...
Joshua White
Joshua White
First reported in September 2012, the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has resulted in 206 laboratory-confirmed deaths, with a 42% mortality rate as of 27 March 2014. Closely related coronaviruses have been isolate...
Heather E Clauss,Robert L Bettiker,Rafik Samuel et al.
Heather E Clauss et al.
Patients undergoing thoracic organ transplantation procedures involving the heart or lung are at increased risk for developing a wide variety of infections due to their underlying immunosuppression and/or other factors. Lung transplant reci...
J Michael Miller
J Michael Miller
Clinical microbiologists have a new and unique opportunity to increase our value to health care by broadening how we think about disease processes and asking ourselves what we can do to help resolve a disease, assist in tracking a cause, or...
Richard G Wax
Richard G Wax
The convergence of the microbial and human worlds provides us with everyday essentials for the survival of our species, and in turn, this interaction brings painful and tragic consequences from pathogens. Looking back, it can be seen that m...
Public health and clinical laboratories: Partners in the age of emerging infections [0.03%]
公共卫生实验室和临床实验室：应对新发传染病的合作机制
James L Beebe
James L Beebe
Clinical and public health laboratories have experienced unprecedented challenges in the form of demands to comply with revised regulations and economic pressures to be more efficient while preparing to respond to everything from pandemic i...