Healio

The critical role of antimicrobial susceptibility testing in medical decision-making

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medical decision-making remains challenging despite the unprecedented advances in technology over the past ...
Healio

Study shows limits of rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A randomized clinical trial of rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing produced mixed results. It did not ...
BIOENGINEER

Fungal detection, diagnostic approaches, and antifungal susceptibility in diabetic foot ulcers: a systematic review of recent evidence

Diabetic foot ulcers have long been treated as a bacterial problem, but a new systematic review suggests that fungi may be ...
Phys.org

Ramanome-based technology shortens mycobacteria antimicrobial susceptibility testing to 24 hours

In response to the escalating challenges posed by the high drug resistance of rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM), a collaborative team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology ...
BIOENGINEER

Transient Dynamics Reveal Hidden Weaknesses in Standard Antibiotic Testing

A new computational study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa shows that transient population dynamics and inoculum size fundamentally ...
Medscape

Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Shows No Clear Benefit in Gram-Negative Bacteremia

In a multinational randomized trial, rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) shortened the time to antibiotic modification in patients with gram-negative bacteremia but did not improve the ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

The Coming of Age of Drug-Susceptibility Testing for Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide, claiming 1.6 million lives annually. 1 Antimicrobial resistance is undermining efforts to curb the global tuberculosis epidemic: among ...
newswire

FDA Clears 'Selux NGP System' for Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing

In vitro antimicrobial resistance test enables clinical labs to deliver targeted therapeutic results days faster than the current standard of care, clearing the path for personalized antibiotic ...
Medical Xpress

Speedy antibiotic susceptibility tests for high-priority pathogens

At the core of the antibiotic-resistance crisis is the lack of a rapid and general antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) that can assess the infecting pathogen's sensitivity to antibiotics and thus ...
News Medical

Bringing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) to the Community

Thought LeadersDr. Ester SegalAssociate Professor of Biotechnology and Food TechnologyThe Technion – Israel Institute of Technology An interview with Dr. Ester Segal from the Technion (Israel ...
Phys.org

Ladder-shaped microfluidic systems for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing

The possibility of rapidly identifying antibiotic resistant bacteria can play a significant role in solving the global antibiotic crisis by facilitating the targeted and timely administration of ...