When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay -- standardized in 1961 by the World ...

In what represents the first patenting from Glasgow-based Microplate Dx Ltd., three of its co-founders describe a system for diagnosing microbial infections and performing rapid antimicrobial ...

Establishes new standard for fighting hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and appropriate antibiotic use “Our initial product, as well as the family of tests we intend to offer based on our ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio The CDC and HP, Inc. have partnered for a ...

Last week, Boston-based SeLux Diagnostics handily beat a milestone deadline to earn additional funding from the Biomedical and Advanced Research Authority (BARDA). SeLux will receive $11.4 million ...

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 ...

The recent emergence of bacterial infections that are resistant to many existing antibiotics is driving an urgent need for tools to quickly identify the small number of therapies that are still ...

A new test revealed that FDA-approved antibiotics — available at your neighborhood pharmacy — can effectively treat superbugs. They are not prescribed, however, because the gold-standard test predicts ...