In a paper published online this week the scientists reported the development of a rapid susceptibility test for Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that causes some 60 percent of hospital-acquired ...

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 ...

Shanx Medtech BV raised €15 million (US$17.5 million) in a seed funding round for its in vitro diagnostic platform for ultra-rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing. The financing came from a range ...

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 ...

The global issue of antimicrobial resistance has been called a “slow motion catastrophe” resulting from the excessive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. 1 A long ...

In a recent study posted to Research Square*, researchers developed and tested a machine learning (ML)-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to predict antibiotic resistance. Study: Predicting ...

While clinical microbiology laboratories are pivotal in the identification and handling of infectious diseases, the microbiology lab environment is rapidly changing. Conventional testing methods are ...

Applying a Novel Microplate Photometer for the Assessment of Bacterial Growth As commonly prescribed treatments for bacterial infection, antibiotics are substances or compounds that kill (bactericidal ...