title: Direct nucleic acid diagnostic tests for bacterial infectious diseases: streptococcal pharyngitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, vaginitis, chlamydial and gonococcal infections.
abstract: Partnering with a reference lab can actually help grow a referring lab's own business. The reference lab provides a hospital's physicians with access to unique tests and clinical information and broadens the scope and depth of the referring lab's menu. As medicine moves toward prescribed treatments based on a patient's individual genotype or phenotype, the reference lab will play an even bigger role in helping the hospital to educate physicians and their patients to the most efficient testing strategies consistent with good patient management.
authors.affiliation: Gen-Probe Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Paillard
authors.forename: Craig S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics; D004496:Education, Continuing; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States