Novel Molecular Diagnostic Methods of Clinical Disease
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 233
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sepsis; pharmacoepidemiology; biomarker research; meta-analysis; rapid molecular diagnosis of microbiology; artificial intelligence for risk prediction
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Dear Colleagues,
The incidence of infectious diseases is high and often causes critical illness, a serious threat to human life and health. The diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases depend on aetiological detection techniques. Therefore, etiological detection technology is required to achieve the timely, accurate and comprehensive detection of pathogens. Traditional methods for conducting the aetiological diagnosis of infection mainly include morphological detection, microbial culture, smear microscopy, antigen and antibody detection, nucleic acid detection, etc. However, these methods have many limitations, such as long detection cycles, low sensitivity, narrow detection spectrum of pathogens, and many more. Indeed, traditional pathogenic microorganism detection methods often cannot effectively handle infections caused by rare or new pathogens. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a series of more powerful pathogen detection tools.
This research topic welcomes original research, methods, and review articles focusing on the characteristics, clinical applications, advantages and challenges of all aspects of molecular approaches to pathogenic diagnostics.
Dr. Chien Chang Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- clinical diagnostic methods
- advantages and challenges of pathogen diagnostics
- pathogenic microorganism detection
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