Monkeypox: A Laboratory Medicine Perspective
In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Matt Binnicker, Ph.D., director of Clinical Virology and vice chair of practice in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, to discuss the laboratory
Lab Medicine Rounds · Mayo Clinic Laboratories
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Show Notes
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
00:45 Can you start us off by giving an overview of this latest outbreak of Monkeypox? And also if you could contrast that against Covid-19?
03:25 What do you think this increase means for our hospital laboratories?
05:44 How can we provide the greatest value to our clinical colleagues and to our patients?
08:17 I know we sometimes do culture a virus and look at viruses. Is it that testing that some of us have in our laboratories that’s not specific enough, it looks like other viruses, is that why we have other tests that we’re using?
10:00 Do you think that Monkeypox would be similar to Covid-19 where we have home test kits for the virus?
12:21 Outro