CLSI eNews - 1 September 2007 (Plain Text Version)

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Executive Vice President's Message
Volunteer Focus
CLSI Volunteers Help Improve Tanzania’s Laboratories
CLSI Member Irwin Army Community Hospital Wins Laboratory of the Year Award
New Specimen Collection Quick Guides
Introducing Key to Quality Checklists
Announcement: New CLSI Catalog 2 - 2007
Press Releases
Standards Status
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Recently Approved Documents
Call for Nominations
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Press Releases

Interpretive Criteria for Microorganism Identification by DNA Target Sequencing (MM18-P)

New CLSI Guideline Provides Interpretive Criteria for Microorganism Identification by DNA Target Sequencing
Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA—September 2007— Because of the growing microbial diversity with emergence of common pathogens having rare or unique phenotypic characteristics and new pathogenic microorganisms with poorly defined phenotypes, conventional methods often cannot fully characterize bacterial or fungal isolates, and laboratories are now relying on broad-range DNA sequencing for microorganism identification.

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has recently published a new document, Interpretive Criteria for Microorganism Identification by DNA Target Sequencing; Proposed Guideline (MM18-P), which provides the most current information for microbial classification by gene sequencing, with particular emphasis on interpretation and reporting results. This document establishes guidelines for the systematic approach to classify bacteria and fungi by broad-range DNA sequencing.
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