By Tom Rosenthal
Remember that saying: “garbage in, garbage out”—no where is that more true than in providing samples for diagnostic testing, according to Edward J. Septimus, MD, FIDSA, FACP, FSHEA, a clinical professor at Texas A&M Medical School, in Bryan, who spoke at the 2018 annual MAD-ID meeting.
To provide some direction to improve sampling, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and American Society for Microbiology (ASM) released a new guide on the proper