Microbe Magazine

Cover: Aerial view of a Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in the Middle East. Clinical Microbiologists have had to be adaptable and sometime ingenious to provide their much-needed services in such settings (see p. 297).
Cover: Aerial view of a Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in the Middle East. Clinical Microbiologists have had to be adaptable and sometime ingenious to provide their much-needed services in such settings (see p. 297).
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Studying Fungal Pathogenesis in Drosophila
Caring for patients with invasive fungal infections remains a formidable challenge. Compared with bacterial infections, fungal infections are difficult to diagnose, have relatively higher attributable mortality rates, and show a complex and changing epidemiology. Available antifungal drugs show o...
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Practicing Clinical Microbiology in Austere Environments
In 2002, the United States Army began sending clinical microbiologists to active war zones, where they were tasked to do infectious disease diagnostic testing for sick and hospitalized troops and associated personnel. Practicing clinical microbiology in such circumstances proves challenging, but ...
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PET: Widening Role Evaluating Infections
Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) and PET that is used in combination with computerized tomography (CT), which is based on conventional X rays arrayed in three dimensions, are powerful imaging methods that can overcome several shortcomings of other noninvasive imaging te...
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