title: [Introducing International State-of-the-Art Clinical Microbiologic Technologies to Japanese Clinical Laboratories--Opening Remarks].
abstract: Internationally, recent progress in clinical microbiology has involved adapting for multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) using selective culture media and the active surveillance test using real-time PCR, matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) technology for bacterial identification, and molecular epidemiological tools such as multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). In this symposium, we discussed updating to state-of-the-art clinical microbiologic technologies in Japanese clinical laboratories.
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoneyama
authors.forename: Toshihiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mitsuda
mesh_terms: D064790:Clinical Laboratory Services; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology / Q000379:methods; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods