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Field Postmortem Rabies Rapid Immunochromatographic Diagnostic Test for Resource-Limited Settings with Further Molecular Applications
Published on: June 29, 2020
Molecular diagnostics in medical mycology
Brian L Wickes1, Nathan P Wiederhold2
1The Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78229, San Antonio, TX, USA. wickes@uthscsa.edu.
Abstract:
Diagnosing fungal infections poses a number of unique problems, including a decline in expertise needed for identifying fungi, and a reduced number of instruments and assays specific for fungal identification compared to that of bacteria and viruses.These problems are exacerbated by the fact that patients with fungal infections are often immunosuppressed, which predisposes to infections from both commonly and rarely seen fungi. In this review, we discuss current and future molecular technologies used for fungal identification, and some of the problems associated with development and implementation of these technologies in today's clinical microbiology laboratories.
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