In the last 25 years, chromogenic culture media have found widespread application in
diagnostic clinical microbiology. In the last decade, the range of media available to clinical …

Automation was introduced many years ago in several diagnostic disciplines such as
chemistry, haematology and molecular biology. The first laboratory automation system for …

The daily operation of clinical laboratories will be drastically impacted by two disruptive
technologies: automation and artificial intelligence (the development and use of computer …

Background Although it has been 30 years since the first automation systems were
introduced in the microbiology laboratory, total laboratory automation (TLA) has only …

Due to reductions in financial and human resources, many microbiological laboratories have
merged to build very large clinical microbiology laboratories, which allow the use of fully …

BACKGROUND Historically, culture-based microbiology laboratory testing has relied on
manual methods, and automated methods (such as those that have revolutionized clinical …

Laboratory medicine is integral to public health and healthcare provision, and it relies on
numerous analytical techniques to provide timely, objective data to healthcare professionals …

There have been many transformative moments in the history of clinical microbiology. For
example, when Hans Christian Gram first added crystal violet and iodine to lung tissue, and …

Clinical microbiology is experiencing revolutionary advances in the deployment of
molecular, genome sequencing-based, and mass spectrometry-driven detection …

Technological advances have changed the practice of clinical microbiology. We
implemented Bruker matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass …