For bacterial infections, the test had a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 88%, while viral sensitivity was 70%.
Diagnostics company Avails Medical announced today that it has received an additional $1.7 million in funding from CARB-X (the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) to continue developing a rapid electronic antibiotic susceptibility test (AST).
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) and Accelerate Diagnostics yesterday announced a commercial collaboration agreement to bring rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility tests to more clinicians and patients worldwide.
A coalition of public interest, animal welfare, and environmental groups is criticizing McDonald's for backing away from a commitment to reduce the use of medically important antibiotics in its beef supply chain.
Researchers in Austria are reporting the identification of a second strain of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) gonorrhea.
Blood culture rate fell 33%, and broad-spectrum antibiotic use dropped 13% in PICUs.
A multimodal intervention at primary care practices in a large healthcare system in North Carolina was associated with significant decreases in inappropriate outpatient antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Gram stain–guided therapy safely cut broad-spectrum antibiotics in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia.
National Football League (NFL) games played with fans in the 2020 season, with mask mandates and physical distancing in place, had no effect on COVID-19 infections in the surrounding county, suggests a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The introduction of procalcitonin (PCT) testing at UK hospitals during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an immediate but not sustained decline in antibiotic prescribing, researchers reported today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
