ROCKVILLE, Md., June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CirrusDx, Inc. (CirrusDx), an infectious disease laboratory and diagnostics company, today announced it now offers antimicrobial susceptibility testing ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday launched a new website aimed at improving access to information that can help healthcare professionals determine which drugs are most likely 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 ...

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 ...

Through trend analyses, this surveillance highlighted both the emergence and decline of AMR across diverse bacterial pathogens, helping inform which antibiotics may remain appropriate as first-line ...

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 ...

Investigators at the Israel Institute for Biological Research have developed a rapid AST that can be performed directly on blood and environmental soil samples. 2,3 In a recent study, the ...

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 possibility of rapidly identifying antibiotic resistant bacteria can play a significant role in solving the global antibiotic crisis by facilitating the targeted and timely administration of ...