The global issue of antimicrobial resistance has been called a “slow motion catastrophe” resulting from the excessive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. 1 A long ...

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 ...

A team of biologists and biomedical researchers at UC San Diego has developed a new method to determine if bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics within a few hours, an advance that could slow the ...

Viable bacteria in the blood, i.e., bacteremia, can lead to bloodstream infection (BSI) and sepsis, a syndromic, often fatal, inflammatory response. Rapid and accurate antimicrobial prescriptions are ...

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 ...

Consumables segment accounted for the largest share of the antimicrobial susceptibility testing market. Based on the product segment, the consumables market is segmented into culture media and growth ...

Shanx Medtech BV raised €15 million (US$17.5 million) in a seed funding round for its in vitro diagnostic platform for ultra-rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing. The financing came from a range ...