EC Microbiology

Recently we celebrated Louis Pasteur’s two-hundred birthday, the pioneer of modern microbiology. Of course, many things have changed in science since then. Great advances were witnessed during this time, and these are becoming faster and faster [1,2].

At the end of the XXth century, when I was a medical student, clinical and research laboratories in my country used completely manual testing for microorganisms identification and susceptibility testing.

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2. R Kolter. “The History of Microbiology-A Personal Interpretation”. Annual Review of Microbiology 75 (2021): 1-17.
3. G Vrioni., et al. “MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry technology for detecting biomarkers of antimicrobial resistance: current achievements and future perspectives”. The Annals of Translational Medicine12 (2018): 240.
4. N Tripathi and A Sapra. “Gram Staining”. Stat Pearls, Treasure Island (FL) (2022).
5. Koneman’s Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 7^th, Burlington, MA, (2016).