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  • January 2023

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    Infectious Disease

    Polio’s reemergence

    Christina Wichmann
    Dec. 21, 2022
    While editing this month’s Clinical Issues article, “Plague take it! What’s new in viral infectious diseases?” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that...
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    Disease

    Observatory and Fast Facts

    MLO Staff
    Dec. 21, 2022
    New blood test can detect ‘toxic’ protein years before Alzheimer’s symptoms emerge, study shows A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed a laboratory...
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    Continuing Education

    The challenge of antimicrobial resistance for the clinical laboratory: The role of the antibiogram

    Fred C. Tenover, Ph.D., D(ABMM), FIDSA, FAAM, FISAC
    Dec. 21, 2022
    To take the test online go HERE. For more information, visit the Continuing Education tab.      LEARNING OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this article, the...
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    Infectious Disease

    Plague take it! What’s new in viral infectious diseases?

    Linda L. Williford Pifer PhD, SM(ASCP), GS(ABB)
    Dec. 21, 2022
    “Plague take it!” was an expression employed by 19th and early 20th century Christians to convey anger, disgust, or frustration in a manner that would circumvent profanity.1 It...
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    Data Management

    Virtually uninterrupted: A virtual learning success

    Stephanie Post
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Tips on how to develop a successful virtual learning program

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    POCT

    Preparing point-of-care testing for the long journey

    Harvey W. Kaufman, MD
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Driving a motor vehicle involves real-time inputs of road conditions and hazards. The same is true in healthcare: medical professionals need real-time inputs to guide decisions...
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    Careers

    How Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center phlebotomy team survived the pandemic

    Janelle Campbell, ASCP
    Dec. 21, 2022
    The COVID-19 pandemic was a hard time not only for phlebotomy, but for all healthcare facilities in the nation with staffing shortages. Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center...
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    Specimen Collection

    Metagenomic surveillance for emerging diseases: An idea whose time has come?

    John Brunstein, PhD
    Dec. 21, 2022
    At their root, human beings seem an eternally optimistic lot. While historians, epidemiologists, and to some extent the rest of us are at least vaguely aware of such things as...
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    Careers

    Over 45 years of making a difference in the laboratory

    Christina Wichmann
    Dec. 21, 2022
    In March 2022, COLA received deeming authority for the specialty of pathology. What should laboratories unfamiliar with COLA’s Pathology Accreditation program know about it? COLA...
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    Assays

    Product Focus - Assays

    MLO Staff
    Dec. 21, 2022
    Your source for diabetes antibody kitsThe KRONUS 3-Screen Islet Cell Autoantibody ELISA Kit (KR7780) is for the simultaneous and non-differential detection of autoantibodies to...
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