Articles on Medical Diseases and Conditions

Culture. This is the classic definitive method for detection and identification and will be discussed later in more detail. The major drawback is time; it usually takes 1 full day to grow the organism and then part or all of 1 day to identify it. It may take an additional day to isolate it before […]

Proper therapy for infectious disease requires knowledge of the etiologic agent. This knowledge can be gained in two ways: directly, either by isolating and identifying the organism in culture or by some method (e.g., fluorescent antibody or nucleic acid probe) that permits specific visual detection of the organism in clinical material; or indirectly, by using […]