Laboratory Diagnosis in Microbial Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

The current diagnosis of infectious diseases largely depends on conventional phenotypic tools. However, typically the phenotypic tools are heavily based on culture and susceptible to bias in testing handling. Specifically, phenotypic result is the final phenomenon of protein expression in vitro. The details of genomics and proteomics cannot be seen in the conventional phenotypic assays. What we can see now is just the tip of the iceberg of infectious diseases. Thus, I would like to invite outstanding researchers in the community to contribute your excellent studies to the Special Issue. The targeted articles include, but not limited to, genomic or proteomic researches focusing broadening our view on infectious diseases. I believe these will form the fundamental basis and considerable impact on further precise measurement of infectious diseases.

Dr. Hsin-Yao Wang
Guest Editor

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