%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Drancourt, M.
%A Michel-Lepage, A.
%A Boyer, S.
%A Raoult, Didier
%T The point-of-care laboratory in clinical microbiology
%D 2016
%L PAR00014569
%G ENG
%J Clinical Microbiology Reviews
%@ 0893-8512
%M ISI:000375057900001
%N 3
%P 429-447
%R 10.1128/cmr.00090-15
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00014569
%V 29
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Point-of-care (POC) laboratories that deliver rapid diagnoses of infectious diseases were invented to balance the centralization of core laboratories. POC laboratories operate 24 h a day and 7 days a week to provide diagnoses within 2 h, largely based on immunochromatography and real-time PCR tests. In our experience, these tests are conveniently combined into syndrome-based kits that facilitate sampling, including self-sampling and test operations, as POC laboratories can be operated by trained operators who are not necessarily biologists. POC laboratories are a way of easily providing clinical microbiology testing for populations distant from laboratories in developing and developed countries and on ships. Modern Internet connections enable support from core laboratories. The cost-effectiveness of POC laboratories has been established for the rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections in both developed and developing countries.
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