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Lisa Spacek

Lisa Spacek is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During her fellowship and assistant professorship in Infectious Diseases, Lisa conducted clinical epidemiologic research focused on treatment of HIV infection in resource-limited settings including Kampala and Rakai in Uganda. Her expertise is in the development of clinical diagnostic algorithms and evaluation of clinical diagnostic tests. Lisa is a Diplomate in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and has published 21 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Techniques & Tools Clinical

Breath Analysis for Disease Diagnosis

June 10, 2013

Jumping on the breath biomarker bandwagon is tempting, but a number of failures to observe the fundamental rules of good science have cast doubt over the technique. Here, the authors describe best practice, from collection to clinical evaluation.

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Breath Analysis for Disease Diagnosis

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