8^th Pathology and Infectious Disease Conference

Dermatopathology & Dermatological Infections

Dermatopathology is a joint subspecialty of dermatology and pathology and to a lesser extent of surgical pathology that focuses on the study of cutaneous diseases at a microscopic and molecular level. The dermatological infection is generally defined as the skin infections caused by bacteria fungi and other microorganisms. The infectious disease diagnosis on a molecular level is developing notably over the past decade. The dermatologic disease diagnosis involves many different new and advanced techniques like transcription-mediated amplification, nucleic-acid sequence based amplification, polymerase chain reaction, ligase chain reaction etc. The operating cost of these techniques is decreasing with time as well as acquiring the approval of U.S. Food and Drug Administration and getting easier and more effective to use. In the future, it has been expected that these techniques will be able to provide the fast and accurate diagnosis of infectious diseases in a single clinical visit.