This edition of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, with James E. Kirby as the guest editor, will center on Advances and Trends in Clinical Microbiology and provide insights into the upcoming two decades. The topics covered will include, but are not limited to, Rapid susceptibility testing methods; Synergy testing; Rethinking serology testing; Total Laboratory Automation in Clinical Microbiology; MALDI-TOF; Future Superbugs; the Antimicrobial Laboratory Resistance Network; Collaborations between Public Health and the clinical microbiology laboratory; Next generation sequencing, encompassing identification and susceptibility prediction; Distributed microbiology testing; Direct from Sample Identification; Biomarkers – predicting viral versus bacterial infection; PK/PD in the era of emerging multidrug-resistance; Nurturing the next generation of clinical microbiologists; and Visual representation of debates, advancements, and controversies in clinical microbiology.

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