Infection Control Today - Rapid Diagnostics

New Strategy for Developing Rapid Diagnostics

An international consortium of researchers has devised a novel strategy for developing rapid, inexpensive diagnostic tests for microbial infections. Effective treatment of microbial infection is critically dependent on early diagnosis and identification of the causative ...More

September 1, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Researchers Use Gold Nanoparticles to Diagnose Flu in Minutes

Arriving at a rapid and accurate diagnosis is critical during flu outbreaks, but until now, physicians and public health officials have had to choose between a highly accurate yet time-consuming test or a rapid but error-prone test. A new detection method developed at the ...More

August 3, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Quick Test to Diagnose Bacterial or Viral Infection Developed

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a new test that quickly and accurately distinguishes between bacterial and viral infections in as little as five hours. Treating viral infections with antibiotics is ineffective and contributes to the ...More

July 20, 2011

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Simple Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria Work Well

When a person living in a malarial area gets a fever, health workers need to know the cause to make absolutely sure they give the right treatment. For many years in sub-Saharan Africa primary health workers have often assumed a fever is caused by malaria, and given ...More

July 6, 2011

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FDA Clears First Test to Diagnose Q Fever in Military Personnel Serving Overseas

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has cleared the first nucleic acid amplification test to diagnose the early stages of Q fever infections in military personnel serving overseas. The Chemical Biological Medical System Joint Project Management Office ...More

May 24, 2011

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bioMerieux Receives FDA Clearance for Automated, Rapid Molecular Screening Test for MRSA

bioMérieux, a leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces that it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its NucliSENS EasyQ® MRSA, an automated molecular test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The test ...More

May 24, 2011

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Meridian Bioscience Receives FDA Clearance for New Premier C. difficile GDH Assay

Meridian Bioscience, Inc. announces that it has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new Clostridium difficile immunoassay, Premier™ C. difficile GDH. This product expands the company’s existing portfolio of C. difficile tests and has been ...More

May 11, 2011

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FDA Clears First One-Day Susceptibility Test for Diagnosis of Staph Infections

MicroPhage, Inc., developers of quick, easy-to-use diagnostic products for bacterial identification, antibiotic susceptibility and resistance testing, announces it has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its KeyPath™ MRSA/MSSA ...More

May 9, 2011

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Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for Xpert Flu

Cepheid announces it has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Xpert® Flu. The diagnostic test, which runs on Cepheid's GeneXpert® System, simultaneously detects and differentiates influenza A, influenza B, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza ...More

April 26, 2011

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FDA Clears Test for C. difficile

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared a test called the Cepheid Xpert C. difficile/Epi assay that is designed to rapidly detect the toxin B gene associated with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), a cause of diarrhea that can lead to colitis, other serious ...More

April 8, 2011

Posted in News

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