For laboratories performing virology testing, taking advantage of molecular testing’s superiority to traditional testing methods is a no-brainer. But leaders in the University of Michigan’s clinical microbiology laboratory have found that the push to go all molecular for virology testing must be tempered by attentiveness to clinician preferences and a collaborative approach that’s likelier to make the journey a success.

So says Duane Newton, PhD, clinical microbiology director at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor. Compared with a high of nearly 6,000 viral cultures performed in-house during the 2009–2010 fiscal year, the Michigan clinical microbiology laboratory performed fewer than 1,000 viral cultures during 2014–2015, and that figure appears to be dropping to “essentially zero” in this fiscal year.

My lede. Read the whole shebang in the March issue of CAP TODAY.