Microbiology: A Systems Approach
Microbiology: A Systems Approach
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781259706615
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17.5, Problem 18AYP
Summary Introduction

To explain:

The reason as to why isolating a pathogen through standard culture methods may become an outdated diagnosis strategy.

Concept introduction:

A new era has been entered by diagnostic microbiology. The invention of new technologies in different fields has led the medical profession to adopt radically new diagnostic techniques. However, the ultimate standard of diagnosis has always been to grow an isolated culture of the suspected microbe and identifying it.

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