Clinics in Laboratory Medicine RSS feed: Articles in Press. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine updates you on the latest trends in clinical laboratory management; keeps you up to date on the newest advances; and provides a sound basis for creating and working in a highly effective clinical laboratory. Each issue focuses on a single topic in pathology and is presented under the direction of a reputed guest editor associated with a major clinical laboratory and academia. http://www.labmed.theclinics.com//inpress?rss=yesElsevier Inc.en © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Clinics in Laboratory Medicine0272-27122012-04-23 © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. healthpermissions@elsevier.comhttp://www.labmed.theclinics.com/article/PIIS027227121200025X/abstract?rss=yes Tuberculosis (TB), though curable, continues to be an unassailable infectious disease incurring both human and economic losses throughout the world. In 2010, an estimated 8.8 million incident TB cases occurred worldwide, with India alone and in combination with China accounting for 26% and 38% of all incident TB cases respectively. This scenario is exacerbated further by an increasing prevalence of drug-resistant cases and smear-negative pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB cases, indicative of the need for highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic tools that would in turn facilitate early initiation of appropriate antitubercular treatment. The currently available laboratory-based assays for TB diagnosis are summarized in the section that follows.Tuberculosis: Laboratory Diagnosis - Corrected ProofCamilla Rodrigues, Viral Vadwai10.1016/j.cll.2012.03.002Clinics in Laboratory Medicine (2012)2012-04-23Clinics in Laboratory Medicine2012-04-23http://www.labmed.theclinics.com/article/PIIS0272271212000261/abstract?rss=yesViral hepatitis is a major public health problem in India, caused mainly by hepatitis viruses A through E. Though both of the enterically transmissible viruses, hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV), are hyperendemic in India, it is HEV that has been the leading cause of past epidemics and sporadic acute and fulminant hepatitis among adults. Frequent exposure to HAV in childhood leads to 90% to 100% seropositivity by adolescence. However, in recent years, changing trends in exposure to HAV are being increasingly reported.Viral Hepatitis in India - Corrected ProofPriya Abraham10.1016/j.cll.2012.03.003Clinics in Laboratory Medicine (2012)2012-04-23Clinics in Laboratory Medicine2012-04-23