Molecular approaches to diagnosing and managing infectious diseases: practicality and costs.

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Pfaller, M. A.
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Clinical Laboratory Techniques Communicable Diseases Disease Management Health Care Costs
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 7(2):312-318.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:49d74302de085f7f81ab5f3984635f561f8c561f0c7bbd66222ca8be1d2f6520
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15104/cdc_15104_DS1.pdf
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