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 ...

University of Cambridge psychologists have developed the first validated "misinformation susceptibility test": a quick two-minute quiz that gives a solid indication of how vulnerable a person is to ...

A new method for identifying the pathogens involved in sepsis cases, which could help to select optimal therapeutics, is reported in Nature. The test has the potential to reduce the turnaround times ...

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 ...

The application of precision medicine to clinical oncology will evolve as the technology that underlies precision medicine advances. Indeed, as seen in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) directly causes an estimated 1.3 million deaths around the globe annually, a figure that the World Health Organization has predicted will rise. A leading cause of AMR is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drug susceptibility testing (DST) in Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains the cornerstone of effective tuberculosis control, guiding the choice of therapy and informing public health strategies to ...

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 ...

An antimicrobial susceptibility test that analyzes pathogen DNA from clinical urine samples returns results in less than 30 minutes, according to the findings of a study published online today in ...