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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Importance of Rapid Diagnostic Testing and Stewardship for Infectious Disease Management

Karen Fong, PharmD, BCIDP

Originally published by our sister publication, Infectious Disease Special Edition

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have fundamentally transformed infectious disease management by providing rapid and robust microbiological diagnoses. In the modern-day expansion of molecular technology, direct-specimen rapid amplification and detection platforms and next-generation sequencing (NGS) are techniques that provide laboratory diagnoses at a speed, sensitivity, and breadth never