In recent years, many efforts have been undertaken to establish new methods for DST to be used on a routine level. The epidemiology of drug-resistant and MDR-TB has posed an enormous need for faster ...

Methods for testing drug susceptibility are based on exposing bacteria to antibiotics and observing their response ("phenotypic testing") or specific genetic testing ("genetic testing"). Currently, ...

Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing technology for rapidly growing mycobacteria based on Raman Spectroscopy. Credit: QIBEBT In response to the escalating challenges posed by the high drug ...

A new test to determine whether antibiotics will be effective against certain bacterial infections is helping physicians make faster and better prescription treatment choices. A new test to determine ...

Dublin, Feb. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Market by Product (Manual Testing, Automated AST, Consumable), Method (Disk Diffusion, Dilution), Application ...

Antimicrobial resistance represents a major threat to global health and security. In 2014, the World Health Assembly called on all nations and the international community to take every necessary ...

DUBLIN, Feb. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Market by Product (Manual Testing, Automated AST, Consumable), Method (Disk Diffusion, Dilution), Application (Clinical ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, affecting more than 10 million people ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens recent gains in the treatment of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide. A widespread epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR ...

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 ...