Antibiotic Testing Articles & Analysis
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The checkerboard test is an experimental method used to evaluate the interaction of two antimicrobial test compounds. In this test, the MIC and MBC values of the test compounds are used individually and combined with the MIC and MBC values of each bacterial strain being evaluated to calculate accumulation. ...
STEMart, a provider of CRO services dedicated to integrated medical device and diagnostic clinical development, introduced new Antibiotic Potency Tests to assess the bioactivity or potency of various antibiotics for medical devices. The development of these new tests strictly follows the Antibiotics-Microbial ...
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As we rapidly expand our US Early Adopter placements for the Reveal Rapid AST system, Nathan will play a critical role in managing key relationships with lab leaders across the country. The need for Rapid AST testing in the US is clear and early interest has been overwhelming. With the trajectory of antimicrobial resistance and sepsis, labs need access to a fast, scalable Rapid ...
Selux Diagnostics, Inc., which is leading a new era in personalized diagnostics to combat superbug infections and fight antibiotic resistance, today announced it has raised $50 million in Series C financing to support the U.S. commercial launch of its Next-Generation Phenotyping (NGP) rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform. ...
The biomarker signature has potential to reduce overtreatment of children with antibiotics by more than 3-fold without impacting underuse. These data show that host response tests have an important role to play in treatment guidance in children with acute ...
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Appropriate use of antibiotics can improve patient health, reduce health care costs, and prolong the utility of effective antibiotics. Inappropriate antibiotic use can contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. ...
ViraBac EZ is intended to help physicians quickly and accurately determine whether to prescribe antibiotics in ambulatory settings. The test will use a capillary blood sample, ideal for use in primary care, urgent care and other outpatient clinical settings. ...
Selux Diagnostics, Inc., which is leading a new era in personalized diagnostics to combat superbug infections and fight antibiotic resistance, today announced that it has received a $2.8 million award from the U.S. ...
Specific Diagnostics today announced results from two studies conducted in the Paris Teaching Hospital System (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux Paris, AP-HP), Europe’s largest hospital network, reporting performance of the Reveal rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) system. Both studies, which comprised approximately 225 samples in total, found ...
As a result, middle ear infections are the #1 reason for antibiotic prescriptions and #1 reason for surgery in children. "Our goal is to decrease the usage of antibiotic therapy by 50% for the treatment of middle ear infections," said Caitlin Cameron, CEO OtoNexus Medical Technologies. ...
The new funding will support continued development and commercialization of Inflammatix’s sample-to-answer, point-of-care MyrnaTM test system, which is designed to read RNA using machine learning and produce results in under 30 minutes, as well as continued development of the ViraBac EZTM test (formerly known as HostDx Fever), which reads gene expression ...
K192665, features improvements in susceptibility testing performance for four important antibiotics used to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as well as the addition of the combination of P. aeruginosa and aztreonam, an empiric antibiotic, to the Accelerate PhenoTest BC kit testing panel. ...
Financing will be used to advance HostDx tests for acute infections and sepsis to commercial launch in 2021. ...
Poster sessions: Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing with Broad Antibiotic Menus Using 384-Well: Saturday, Jun. 22, 2019; Presentation Time 1: 11 am-12 pm, Presentation Time 2: 4 pm - 5 pm; CPHM-834; Presenter, Selux Diagnostics, Eric Stern, PhD This poster session describes Selux Diagnostics' next-generation phenotyping (NGP) platform, which employs ...
These measures included the maximum cell count recorded for a cow across four tests within a season or where it was compared to multiple cell count test periods combined with age and clinical mastitis information. “Here’s the gift to the Australian herd test industry,” Dr Penry said. “If you are trying to convince farmers ...
SEATTLE (March 29, 2017) Newly published, peer-reviewed results of observational clinical research have demonstrated that ID Genomics’ “bacterial fingerprinting” technology has the potential to improve antibiotic prescribing, reducing prescription errors and the overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which could ultimately improve patient ...
Silver Bullet Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held medical device company that has developed an antimicrobial technology for implantable medical devices such as orthopedic bone screws, reported today the results of a study testing the “Time Kill” and “Adherence” effectiveness of its CE-marked OrthoFuzIon® Antimicrobial Bone Screw against the Top Six ...
Thirteen students have tested positive for the antibiotic resistant infection, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at Belen High School in New Mexico. ...