A simple blood test can tell doctors when it is safe to stop antibiotics in patients recovering from sepsis, a review led by ...

Shanx Medtech BV raised €15 million (US$17.5 million) in a seed funding round for its in vitro diagnostic platform for ...

Antibiotics have revolutionized medicine, saving countless lives by treating previously fatal bacterial infections with ease. Yet today, their power is in serious jeopardy. Every year in the United ...

Researchers at EPFL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed a novel and highly efficient method for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy. The technique, called ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thought LeadersDr. Sandor KasasResearch LeadEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne News Medical speaks with Dr. Sandor Kasas, a lead researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in ...

“We have developed a technique in our laboratories that allows us to obtain an antibiogram within 2-4 hours – instead of the current 24 hours for the most common germs and one month for tuberculosis,” ...

Antibiotics once turned deadly infections into curable ones. That trust is now cracking. Across hospitals and homes, germs ...

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) refers to coordinated strategies for the targeted, evidence-based, and safe use of ...