Direct detection technologies for pathogenic microorganisms are emerging to be applied in the diagnosis of serious bloodstream infections and infections at sterile body sites, as well as for quality control measures prior to the release of sterile blood products and to ascertain microbial safety of food...
Keywords: bacteraemia, blood culture, flow cytometry, hybridisation, matrix-assisted laser-desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF), microarray, microbial food safety, nucleic acid-based technology (NAT), nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA), PCR, proteomic profiling, sepsis
07/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter