Microbe Magazine

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A New Dawn for Chlamydia Research
The earliest reports of what were likely chlamydial infections can be found in ancient texts, where diseases of the eye are documented. Early efforts to study the etiology of chlamydial disease trace to Czech scientists Ludwig Halberstädter and Stanislaus von Prowacek, who examined the transmissi...
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Bringing the Diagnostic Lab to Patients
Although diagnostic tests affect up to 70% of treatment decisions, such testing accounts for only 2% of the overall cost of U.S. health care. Scientific advances and new technologies are making it possible to develop simple, inexpensive diagnostic tests that can be used at the patient's beds...
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Diagnostic Microbiology in Post-Genocide Cambodia
The microbiology laboratory that Nhem Somary supervises in the Kampong Cham Provincial Hospital along the Mekong River, three hours northeast of Phnom Penh, serves as a model for labs in other Cambodian hospitals. She began supervising the laboratory in 1998, but did not offer diagnostic microbio...
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