Investigators at the Israel Institute for Biological Research have developed a rapid AST that can be performed directly on blood and environmental soil samples. 2,3 In a recent study, the ...

Preliminary data indicate the rate of sepsis mortality related to overall patient deaths is dropping at University Health Care System in Augusta, Ga. So what are they doing differently? Accelerate ...

Researchers at EPFL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed a novel and highly efficient method for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy. The technique, called ...

Bacteria are everywhere, and while many are harmless and some are even beneficial, pathogenic bacteria present an increasing threat to human health. Antibiotic resistance is becoming a major problem, ...

A study conducted in nine European centres has demonstrated the efficacy of a new rapid test designed to detect infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The recent emergence and spread of ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method for diagnosing urinary tract infections that significantly accelerates antibiotic resistance testing in urine. Because ...

Thought LeadersDr. Sandor KasasResearch LeadEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne News Medical speaks with Dr. Sandor Kasas, a lead researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in ...

“We have developed a technique in our laboratories that allows us to obtain an antibiogram within 2-4 hours – instead of the current 24 hours for the most common germs and one month for tuberculosis,” ...

Bacteria of the genus Enterobacter are among the most dangerous bacteria associated with hospital infections worldwide. Some of their representatives are highly resistant to commonly used antibiotics, ...

A wellplate with pink liquid in a few of its wells. A gloved hand pipettes liquid into the remaining empty wells. The new test eschews wellplates in favor of a handheld luminescence reader. Credit: ...