PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hoyle, Brian ED - Andrasevic, Arjana T. ED - Krishna, Sanjeev ED - Papenburg, Jesse ED - van Belkum, Alex TI - Advances in Rapid Testing for Bacterial, Viral, and Parasitic Infections DP - 2015 Jul 23 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 25--27 VI - 15 IP - 48 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/15/48/25.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/15/48/25.full AB - Detection and identification of bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens that are both rapid and accurate are important in curbing infections. The days-long growth-based detection and identification procedures have been reduced to hours and even minutes. Nuclear detection techniques and detection of real-time nanoscale changes in susceptible bacteria hold promise.