title: Molecular diagnostics: the changing culture of medical microbiology.
abstract: Diagnostic molecular biology is arguably the fastest growing area in current laboratory-based medicine. Growth of the so called 'omics' technologies has, over the last decade, led to a gradual migration away from the 'one test, one pathogen' paradigm, toward multiplex approaches to infectious disease diagnosis, which have led to significant improvements in clinical diagnostics and ultimately improved patient care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bullman
authors.forename: Brigid
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lucey
authors.forename: Roy D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Sleator
mesh_terms: D008829:Microbiology; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D057089:Pathology, Molecular / Q000379:methods*