New Research Areas in Clinical Microbiology

Abstract

I would like to outline a few areas in Clinical Microbiology that have become major research disciplines over the last 10 years that may now impact Health and Allied Sciences. They encompass (1) COVID-19, (2) biofilms, (3) microbiomes, (4) nanotechnology, and (5) probiotics. As well as being direct research areas, they overlap with each other, and they are beginning to overlap in important ways with Health and Allied Sciences-hence the importance of contributing papers on these subjects to the Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU (JHAS-NU).There have been 43 publications on COVID-19 in JHAS-NU since the journal began in 2016, but the subject of all except for 6 of these articles is direct patient care. Three 1-3 have some diagnostic care component and the subject of the other three is the laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19. [4][5][6] Since JHAS-NU began in 2016, there have been 2 publications on biofilms, 7,8 3 publications on the microbiome, 9-11 2 publications on nanotechnology, 12,13 and 1 publication on probiotics. 14 The following are some examples of current research impacting Health and Allied Sciences in the above-mentioned areas: