The lab's increasing arsenal of tools to battle antibiotic resistance.

The article offers information on the tools and technology being used in clinical microbiology laboratory to fight multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). It says that Grady Health System in Atlanta, Georgia acquired a so-called cutting-edge tool that can give data on pathogen identification and antimicrobial susceptibility (AMS). It says that the Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectometry (MALDI-TOF MS) helps bypass time-consuming tasks in culturing pathogen.