For years, conventional DST on solid egg- or agar-based media was a standard technology and is still utilized in many countries worldwide. The methodologies are the proportion method, the absolute ...

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 ...

Biomarkers to predict the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer with actionable genetic alterations. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO ...

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 ...

Methods for testing drug susceptibility are based on exposing bacteria to antibiotics and observing their response ("phenotypic testing") or specific genetic testing ("genetic testing"). Currently, ...

Dublin, Feb. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Market by Product (Manual Testing, Automated AST, Consumable), Method (Disk Diffusion, Dilution), Application ...

Researchers at TU Delft and partner organizations have built graphene sensors small enough to detect the vibrations of a ...

A new test to determine whether antibiotics will be effective against certain bacterial infections is helping physicians make faster and better prescription treatment choices. A new test to determine ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens recent gains in the treatment of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide. A widespread epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR ...

In recent years, many efforts have been undertaken to establish new methods for DST to be used on a routine level. The epidemiology of drug-resistant and MDR-TB has posed an enormous need for faster ...