microbiology
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Stool Testing: From Culture Plates to PCR Panels
Molecular panels find far more organisms than culture ever did, which has created a new problem: deciding which of the findings is actually making someone ill.
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Blood Cultures and the Skin Contamination Problem
A blood culture that grows something is not the same as a bloodstream infection, and telling the two apart shapes days of treatment.
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Aseptic Technique: The Habits That Keep Cultures Clean
Aseptic technique is not a list of rules to memorise. It is airflow management and hand choreography, and once you see it that way the rules…
