{"title":"Technical advances in laboratory diagnosis of bloodstream infection.","authors":"Hainan Wen, Liu Qian, Xinghui Gao, Alon Singer, Shuojun Xie, Yi-Wei Tang, Jianhong Zhao","doi":"10.1080/14737159.2025.2458467","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Rapid and accurate laboratory diagnosis is essential for the effective treatment of bloodstream infection (BSI).</p><p><strong>Areas covered: </strong>This review aims to address novel and traditional approaches that exhibit different performance characteristics in the diagnosis of BSI. In particular, the authors will discuss the pros and cons of the blood culture-based phenotypic methods, nucleic acid-targeted molecular methods, and host response-targeted biomarker detection in the diagnosis of BSI.</p><p><strong>Expert opinion: </strong>This manuscript summarizes etiologic and host-based techniques in the diagnosis of BSI. Both methods are not mutually exclusive but should be selected based on clinical needs and laboratory conditions to help diagnose BSI more quickly and accurately.</p>","PeriodicalId":12113,"journal":{"name":"Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14737159.2025.2458467","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PATHOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Introduction: Rapid and accurate laboratory diagnosis is essential for the effective treatment of bloodstream infection (BSI).
Areas covered: This review aims to address novel and traditional approaches that exhibit different performance characteristics in the diagnosis of BSI. In particular, the authors will discuss the pros and cons of the blood culture-based phenotypic methods, nucleic acid-targeted molecular methods, and host response-targeted biomarker detection in the diagnosis of BSI.
Expert opinion: This manuscript summarizes etiologic and host-based techniques in the diagnosis of BSI. Both methods are not mutually exclusive but should be selected based on clinical needs and laboratory conditions to help diagnose BSI more quickly and accurately.
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Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics (ISSN 1473-7159) publishes expert reviews of the latest advancements in the field of molecular diagnostics including the detection and monitoring of the molecular causes of disease that are being translated into groundbreaking diagnostic and prognostic technologies to be used in the clinical diagnostic setting.
Each issue of Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics contains leading reviews on current and emerging topics relating to molecular diagnostics, subject to a rigorous peer review process; editorials discussing contentious issues in the field; diagnostic profiles featuring independent, expert evaluations of diagnostic tests; meeting reports of recent molecular diagnostics conferences and key paper evaluations featuring assessments of significant, recently published articles from specialists in molecular diagnostic therapy.
Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics provides the forum for reporting the critical advances being made in this ever-expanding field, as well as the major challenges ahead in their clinical implementation. The journal delivers this information in concise, at-a-glance article formats: invaluable to a time-constrained community.