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Presentations at World Microbe Forum outlined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the spread and diagnosis of other infectious diseases, highlighting issues of lab capacity, patient fear and altered disease dynamics.

While traditional medical and public health laboratory platforms, methodologies and assays are the foundation of laboratory medicine, molecular diagnostics now plays a critical role in patient care.

Providing clinical microbiology lab-based medical education is a critical element to providing high-quality patient care and encouraging community involvement and multi-disciplinary collaboration.