As we round out yet another year of this pandemic, clinical microbiologists have not slowed down. We have not slowed down in our response to the pandemic or other day-to-day testing needs, despite the constant reagent backorders and personnel shortages, and equally as important, we have not slowed down in publishing high-quality, informative and clinically relevant papers, which have really spanned the gamut of clinical microbiology - from antimicrobial susceptibility testing, to next generation sequencing assays and AI, to evaluation of new high throughput assays for a variety of pathogens, the field continues to expand at an impressive pace. So today, 3 JCM editors discuss some of our favorite and most impactful papers published in the Journal in 2021.
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Nasal Swab Performance by Collection Timing, Procedure, and Method of Transport for Patients with SARS-CoV-2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00569-21
Multicenter Postimplementation Assessment of the Positive Predictive Value of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen-Based Point-of-Care Tests Used for Screening of Asymptomatic Continuing Care Staff.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01411-21
Laboratory Safety: Handling Burkholderia pseudomallei Isolates without a Biosafety Cabinet.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00424-21
The clinical utility of 2 high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing workflows for taxonomic assignment of unidentifiable bacterial pathogens in MALDI-TOF MS.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01769-21
Performance of Fully Automated Antimicrobial Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing Using Copan WASP Colibri Coupled to the Radian In-Line Carousel and Expert System.
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00777-21
Benefits Derived from Full Laboratory Automation in Microbiology: A Tale of Four Laboratories.
DOI https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01969-20
Reflex Detection of Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae by Use of the SpeeDx ResistancePlus GC Assay.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00089-21
Comparative Performance of Latest-Generation and FDA-Cleared Serology Tests for the Diagnosis of Chagas Disease.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00158-21
Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Using Sequence-Specific Purification of Urine Cell-Free DNA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00074-21
Indeterminate QuantiFERON Gold Plus Results Reveal Deficient Interferon Gamma Responses in Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00811-21
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