Sepsis remains a substantial disease burden worldwide, and patients can deteriorate rapidly, but the current diagnostics take days to deliver results, according to the report’s authors. Fast ...

Faster diagnosis: The RMD AST test can pinpoint UTI-causing bacteria and drug sensitivity in just six hours, compared to days for standard lab work. High accuracy: Trials found the test matched ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Delabeling included oral challenges with or without additional skin testing. 3.6% of patients reacted when ...

Removing incorrect penicillin allergy labels on GP records could combat antibiotic resistance and save lives, an NIHR-funded clinical trial led by the University of Leeds has found. Penicillins are ...

The field of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and resistance detection is rapidly evolving to address the global threat posed by antimicrobial resistance. In recent years, a ...

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: ...

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 ...

McGill researchers have developed a diagnostic system capable of identifying bacteria—and determining which antibiotics can stop them—in just 36 minutes, a major advance in the global effort to curb ...

MUMBAI: In the war against superbugs, time is both ally and enemy. Conventional antimicrobial tests take two to three days to tell doctors which antibiotic can save a patient’s life. By then, many are ...

A recent Lancet Microbe study investigated the accuracy of antibiotic resistance determination from Enterococcus faecium genomes for diagnostic purposes. Study: Antibiotic resistance determination ...

An analysis of invasive Escherichia coli samples from newborns at a US pediatric hospital found rising rates of resistance to ...