Diagnostics in Action: Telling Microbial Stories

Meet the Microbiologist - The scientists behind the microbiology by American Society for Microbiology

Apr 17, 202644:06Science & Medicine

Andrea Prinzi, Ph.D., MPH, SM(ASCP) , and Rodney Rohde, Ph.D.,SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM , trace how passion‑driven, nonlinear paths in clinical microbiology led them from hospital benches and public health labs to academia and in...

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