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I think you raise an excellent point, that many don't really think about. Detection is hard, and research on microbes is hard if you can't grow them in-vitro. T
by zxexz 7y ago
I think you raise an excellent point, that many don't really think about.
Detection is hard, and research on microbes is hard if you can't grow them in-vitro. There is research in this space. A few years ago, I had a lecture from Slava Epstein, a professor who has made some major inroads in this space[0].
[0] https://experiments.springernature.com/articles/10.1038/nprot.2017.074 https://experiments.springernature.com/articles/10.1038/npro...
- y-c-o-m-b 7y agoDetection is hard indeed. Here is an interesting research on patients with neurological disabilities though normal imaging (MRI) results, but abnormalities found when inspected using diffuse tensor imaging: https://nn.neurology.org/content/5/3/e456 https://nn.neurology.org/content/5/3/e456
- projektfu 7y agoI assume you’re aware but I wanted to mention that there are many detection methods besides culture. Electron microscopy, fluorescent DNA probes, histochemistry, etc.