QC Compliance and Environmental Isolates

QC Compliance and Environmental Isolates

Why are many laboratories incorporating Environmental (a.k.a. In-House) Isolates in their Quality Control testing? There has been a shift in the industry regarding the inclusion of environmental isolates as test strains utilized for microbiological assays. Omission of...
A New Multidrug-Resistant Fungus Emerges

A New Multidrug-Resistant Fungus Emerges

We take it for granted that in the age of antibiotics there will always be a drug available to treat an infection.  But reports of outbreaks of a pan-resistant fungal disease known as Candida auris– that is resistant to every antifungal medication physicians have to...
Why Is Tuberculosis Still a Problem?

Why Is Tuberculosis Still a Problem?

The bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has plagued humans for probably 70,000 years and remains a global threat to this day.1, 2 In 1882, Robert Koch recognized Mtb as the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), but it took decades for the first...