Syndromic testing allows an individual to be tested for multiple pathogens that elicit similar symptoms at once. These tests limit the time and number of tests needed to diagnosis an illness. These tests utilize multi-panel assays that screen for several infections.
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Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation have long shown promise as potential biomarkers to diagnose and guide treatment of many human diseases, including multiple types of cancers....
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Although metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) is increasingly used in clinical microbiological diagnosis, especially for rare or complicated infectious diseases, the applications of...
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Date: April 27, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) At least 20 million hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections occur annually, with more than 3 million symptomatic cases and 60...
Date: October 26, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) To control and monitor the epidemiology and diffusion of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV...
Date: October 20, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CET) Many laboratories around the world have adopted expanded diagnostic testing capabilities to address the coronavirus pan...
Objective : Evaluation of EDTA-gel blood collection tubes from remote locations for NIPS (Non-invasive prenatal testing). Design: Paired comparisons Population: 61 pregnant women from Britis...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Clinical chemistry is a key discipline in laboratory medicine and comprises the majority of the workload in the core lab. In this pr...
Date: November 04, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Fecal calprotectin is a highly sensitive assay that measures inflammation present in the intestinal tract. Gastroenterologists are i...
Date: November 2, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria are an alarming and ongoing global issue which requires fast and innovative diagn...
As the pandemic continues to evolve, new tools are needed to fight it. The greatest needs revolve around the ability to screen asymptomatic individuals for COVID-19 and to simultaneously tes...
We use COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and mortality data and a deterministic SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infectious and recovered) compartmental framework to model possible trajectories o...
AAV peptide display libraries allow for the generation of novel variants capable of high-level transduction. We previously described an AAV peptide display library combined with a sensitive...
Lupus anticoagulants and antiphospholipid syndrome: Resolving confusion, providing new guideline updates...