Rapid antibiotic-resistance tests
Platforms that determine which antibiotics a specific infecting pathogen is susceptible or resistant to in hours instead of the 2-3 days conventional culture-based susceptibility testing requires, guiding targeted rather than empiric antibiotic therapy: Accelerate Diagnostics and T2 Biosystems and Selux Diagnostics in the US, Q-linea in Sweden, and Autobio Diagnostics in China.
diagnostics-medtech
7 min