Laboratory approaches to infectious diarrhea.

摘要: Future applications of advanced molecular diagnostics in clinical laboratories will enhance significantly capabilities to diagnose bacterial, parasitic, and viral agents the early course disease through enhanced assay sensitivities specificities improved turnaround times, theoretically leading more timely directed therapeutic intervention. Until such time, clinicians must continue rely on judgment diverse battery traditional culture techniques, direct examination (including light microscopy electron microscopy), immunoassays that are available. Cost considerations ever-increasing array infectious responsible for gastroenteritis drive development practice guidelines assist practitioners with reasoned reasonable approaches management diarrheal illnesses.