New Laboratory Tools for Emerging Bacterial Challenges

New Tools to Meet New Challenges: Emerging Technologies for Managing Marine Ecosystems for Resilience

A the momentum for the study of ecosystem resiliency increases, more data are critically needed about the members of the ecosystems under study. Ironically, ecosystem-based management places even greater demands on the study of individual organisms because of the need for simultaneous information on multiple species. Specifically, what species are present or absent? What are their distributions...

Data management issues for emerging diseases and new tools for managing surveillance and laboratory data.

Data Management Issues for Emerging Diseases Since 1976, when Legionnaires’ disease affected attendees at the American Legion Convention in Philadelphia (1), the scope of public health has expanded. During the 1976 outbreak investigation, public attention was drawn to news accounts of the increasing numbers of cases and deaths as well as to speculations about diseases causes and prevention. Aft...

New tools for laboratory design and management.

The clinical laboratory is changing from a place of activity based on sample analysis to an in vitro diagnostic network. To convince our team, partners, and administrators, we need new comprehensive tools to define a strategy with limited risk of failure or conflicts. Specific quality goals should be established before choosing automated tools for sample handling, analytical systems, laboratory...

Phenotypic Diversity and Emerging New Tools to Study Macrophage Activation in Bacterial Infectious Diseases

Macrophage polarization is a concept that has been useful to describe the different features of macrophage activation related to specific functions. Macrophage polarization is responsible for a dichotomic approach (killing vs. repair) of the host response to bacteria; M1-type conditions are protective, whereas M2-type conditions are associated with bacterial persistence. The use of the polariza...

Emerging Tools for Experimental