The unique regulatory environment for the clearance and use of antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) systems is complex in the U.S. While members of the medical microbiology community recognize the ...
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CirrusDx, Inc. (CirrusDx), an infectious disease laboratory and diagnostics company, today announced it now offers antimicrobial susceptibility testing ...
For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...