Blood Culture: A Laboratory Medicine Specialist’s Complete Guide to Sepsis Diagnosis and Interpretation Written by a Board-Certified Laboratory Medicine Specialist (MD.PhD.) Blood culture is the gold standard diagnostic test for bacteremia and sepsis — two of the most time-critical emergencies in modern medicine. As a Laboratory Medicine Specialist, I have seen the blood culture result…
Anaerobic Culture: A Laboratory Medicine Specialist’s Complete Guide to Diagnosis and Interpretation Written by a Board-Certified Laboratory Medicine Specialist (MD.PhD.) Anaerobic bacteria are among the most frequently overlooked pathogens in clinical microbiology — yet they are responsible for some of the most dangerous, and sometimes fatal, infections encountered in medicine. As a Laboratory Medicine Specialist,…
Bordetella pertussis Culture: A Laboratory Medicine Specialist’s Complete Guide to Diagnosis and Interpretation Written by a Board-Certified Laboratory Medicine Specialist (MD.PhD.) Whooping cough — caused by Bordetella pertussis — is one of the most contagious bacterial respiratory infections known to medicine, and it is making a quiet global comeback. As a Laboratory Medicine Specialist, I…
Understanding the Stool Hemoglobin Quantitative Test (Stool Hb / qFIT): A Laboratory Medicine Specialist’s Guide Written by a Board-Certified Laboratory Medicine Specialist (MD.PhD.) Colorectal cancer remains one of the most preventable cancers — yet it kills hundreds of thousands globally each year, largely because it goes undetected in its early, curable stages. The Stool Hemoglobin…
