Annals of Laboratory Medicine

History and Future of Efficient Design of Quality Control in Clinical Laboratories 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2025.071… Ann Lab Med. November 4, 2026. Xincen Duan #CapabilityOfErrorDetection #CostOfQualityControl #EfficiencyOfQualityControl #InternalQualityControl

Development of an Amplicon-Based Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Pan-type Detection of BCR::ABL1 Kinase Domain Mutations 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.047… Ann Lab Med. November 4, 2026. Hyeonah Lee #AcuteLymphoblasticLeukemia #ChronicMyeloidLeukemia #NextGenerationSequencing

Incremental Yield of CD34-Positive Cell Enrichment for Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Measurable Residual Disease Detection in CD34-Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.035… Ann Lab Med. November 4, 2026. Yu Jeong Choi #AcuteMyeloidLeukemia #CD34PositiveCells

First Report of KPC-2-Producing Hafnia paralvei: Evidence of Horizontal Gene Transfer from Klebsiella pneumoniae 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2025.051… Ann Lab Med 2026;46(3). Sun-mi Cho #HafniaParalvei #KPC2 #KlebsiellaPneumoniae #HorizontalGeneTransfer #IncX3Plasmid

Molecular and Microbiological Characteristics of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Harboring CTX-M-55 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2025.028… Ann Lab Med 2026;46(3). Heejeong Kwon #BetaLactamaseCTXM55 #DrugResistanceBacterial #EscherichiaColi

White Blood Cell Counting in Severely Leukopenic Samples on a Sysmex XN Hematology Analyzer: Analytical Performance Evaluation of Whole Blood Mode and Low White Blood Cell Mode 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.022… Ann Lab Med. October 16, 2026. Jongho Yi #Leukopenia #LowWhiteBloodCellMode

Commutability Assessment of Materials for Serum Copper Measurement Using the IFCC Difference-in-Bias and the CLSI EP30 Approaches 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.011… Ann Lab Med. October 14, 2026. Mengyu Xu #Commutability #ExternalQualityAssessment #MaterialCharacterization #SerumCopper

Calprotectin as a Prognostic Marker for Sepsis Independent of Renal Dysfunction 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.011… Ann Lab Med. October 13, 2026. Youjin Chang #Biomarkers #Calprotectin #HospitalMortality #Presepsin #Prognosis #Sepsis #TreatmentOutcomes

PseudoRA: A Novel Pseudogene ReAligner for Detecting SBDS Variants in Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.023… Ann Lab Med. October 8, 2026. Yu Jin Park #Misalignment #NextGenerationSequencing #Pseudogene #SBDS #ShwachmanDiamondSyndrome

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pleural Effusion and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid-Based Circulating Tumor DNA Testing in Lung Cancer 🌷doi.org/10.3343/alm.2026.030… Ann Lab Med. October 8, 2026. Jaewoong Lee #BronchoalveolarLavageFluid #CirculatingTumorDNA #Guideline #LiquidBiopsy