… Future genetic technology will incorporate advanced methods such as ultra-deep
sequencing that allows correction of treatment failure associated with HIV, Hepatitis B and failed …

The first words a medical technologist intern learns are relatively simple; yet, they may
become the most important of his exhaustive vocabulary list. The two words are often used …

The article discusses the expanding scope of antibiotic resistance and the potential mechanisms
of bacterial resistance worldwide. It notes the responsibility of the endless production of …

Smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, polio, cholera, and tuberculosis (TB) are among the
diseases that struck fear into citizens of 18th-and 19th-century America. Discovery of antibiotics …

ABBREVIATIONS: MIC-minimal inhibitory concentration; AST-antimicrobial susceptibility
testing; CLSI-Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; EUCAST-European Committee on …

ABBREVIATIONS: MDR-multi-drug resistant; HAI-hospital-associated infection; CAI-communityassociated
infection; WBC-white blood cell; VRE-vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus …

he changing epidemiology of hospital-acquired (HA); nosocomial infection) and community-acquired
(CA) infections has blurred the definition of these diseases. The present term,“…

ABBREVIATIONS: AST-antimicrobial susceptibility testing; NLS-National Laboratory System;
CDC-Center for Disease Control and Prevention; CLSI-Clinical and Laboratory Standards …

436 LABMEDICINE■ Volume 36 Number 7■ July 2005 labmedicine. com fear in communities
for both children and adults: in daycare centers, on sports teams, in military barracks, and …

… Schofield, MPH MT(CAMT) … Other STDs to sereen include Group B beta hemoiytic
streptococcus, or GBS — a deadly inteciion of the newborn — and human papiliomavirus …