New Laboratory Tools for Emerging Bacterial Challenges

Pierre-Edouard Fournier (1) , Michel Drancourt (1) , Didier Raoult (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes

Since its creation, the Mediterranee-Infection foundation has aimed at optimizing the management of infectious diseases and surveying the local and global epidemiology. This pivotal role was permitted by the development of rational sampling, point-of-care tests, and extended automation as well as new technologies, including mass spectrometry for colony identification, real-time genomics for isolate characterization, and the development of versatile and permissive culture systems. By identifying and characterizing emerging microbial pathogens, these developments provided significant breakthroughs in infectious diseases.

Domaines: Médecine humaine et pathologie

Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Michel Drancourt, Didier Raoult. New Laboratory Tools for Emerging Bacterial Challenges. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017, 65 (1), pp.S39-S49. ⟨10.1093/cid/cix405⟩. ⟨hal-01730968⟩