If you go into a typical microbiology laboratory today, the technology is about the same as it was 160 years ago when Louis Pasteur described the technology and subsequently when Hans Gram described the Gram stain. It’s incredibly antiquated, completely different from the chemistry laboratory in terms of its adoption of modern technology.
That is about to change. We are seeing a gradual evolution of new techniques to define the bacteriology of infectious disease. These techniques come in various sizes and from suppliers — there are an awful lot of them out there.