Infectious: Page 5

Lab-on-a-chip tech enables fast, cheap tuberculosis detection in study
By Nick Paul Taylor
The St George’s and QuantuMDx collaborators identified dielectrophoresis as a way to improve testing for TB. Using the technique, the researchers isolated the bacteria that cause TB from the rest of the content of sputum samples.
July 3, 2023
Bacteria Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Social
Hospitals advised to rethink antibiotic use under new MRSA prevention guidance
By Nick Paul Taylor
The document, which will be published in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, represents the latest thinking on the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
June 28, 2023
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Social
HPV point-of-care test in development combines isothermal amplification, lateral flow detection
By LabPulse.com staff writers
A testing platform that combines the two technologies often used separately in diagnostic tests could simplify the equipment and procedures needed for HPV testing.
June 23, 2023
Hpv Infection Social
Testing platform in development uses optics, microfluidic channels on a silicon or plastic chip
By Elissa Wolfson
Improved chip-based optofluidic sensing devices may one day be used to detect or analyze completely different bioparticles at widely varying concentrations.
June 22, 2023
Laser Red Beams Social
Georgia urgent care chain to pay $1.6M to resolve lawsuits involving COVID-19 testing, treatment
By LabPulse.com staff writers
This civil settlement resolves lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by former employees of CRH Healthcare under whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act.
June 22, 2023
Gavel Legal Business Social
Dielectrophoresis may enable the diagnosis of 'missing millions' of tuberculosis cases
By Elissa Wolfson
The disease-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis was selectively isolated using new chip-based technology on sputum samples from suspected tuberculosis patients.
June 22, 2023
Bacteria Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Social
Generative AI correctly diagnoses 39% of complex, challenging medical cases
By Nick Paul Taylor
The study lacks a control arm showing how GPT-4 compares to the success rate of doctors, but the results of another study suggest the AI performed well.
June 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Face Social
Infectious disease NGS test developer Delve Bio closes $35M Series A financing
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The company’s mNGS-based infectious disease testing platform uses technology developed at the University of California San Francisco Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics.
June 20, 2023
Sequencing Dna Rna Social
Studies show Pathnostics UTI test required fewer resources, reduced costs compared to standard testing
By LabPulse.com staff writers
In the study, the average one-year costs related to UTIs were $501.85 lower for patients receiving treatment based on the Guidance test than for those receiving treatment based on the traditional culture test.
June 20, 2023
Bladder Urinary 3 D Social
BioMérieux researchers describe rise of multidrug-resistant Candida auris infections
By Elissa Wolfson
A retrospective analysis of blood cultures detecting Candida auris found an upsurge of this pathogenic yeast between 2021 and 2023.
June 19, 2023
Candida Candidiasis Social
Saudi Arabia IVD market rose to $605M in 2022: Kalorama
By Daniel Granderson
The market was driven in part by COVID-19 testing, with about 44 million PCR COVID-19 tests performed through last August.
June 19, 2023
Business Financial Results Social
Nanopore-nanobody sensing platform detects viral proteins, cancer biomarkers
By Nick Paul Taylor
Researchers combined a ClyA nanopore with nanobodies designed to bind to proteins associated with certain diseases; DNA linkers connected the nanopores and nanobodies.
June 19, 2023
Lab Scientists Social
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