Microbiology
Diagnostic SHERLOCK Optimized for Rapid Viral Detection
New technique enables SHERLOCK to detect a virus directly in bodily fluids, eliminating a step that required laboratory equipment and expanding the platform's potential to quickly and cheaply track pathogens such as Zika during an outbreak. More...08 May 2018
Metagenomic Sequencing Can Diagnose Cases of Meningitis
Subacute and chronic meningitis are diagnostically challenging given the wide range of potential infectious, autoimmune, neoplastic, paraneoplastic, parameningeal, and toxic causes. Securing a final diagnosis can require weeks or months of testing or remain unsolved, necessitating empirical treatment approaches that may be ineffective or even harmful. More...01 May 2018
Test Authorized to Identify Candida auris
Candida auris is a yeast that can cause serious infections in hospitalized patients such as bloodstream infections and is frequently resistant to multiple antifungal drugs used to treat Candida infections. The US Administration has authorized the first test to identify the emerging pathogen (C. auris), which can cause serious infections in hospitalized patients. More...30 Apr 2018
Rapid Diagnostic Test Evaluated for Tuberculosis
The diagnosis of smear-negative and extrapulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) remains challenging in resource-limited settings. Confirmation of smear-negative and extrapulmonary TB cases requires a positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture, which may take up to eight weeks. More...26 Apr 2018
Treponemal Subspecies Discriminated by LAMP
Human yaws is a tropical skin disease of children caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue (TPE). Skin ulcers are the most characteristic clinical manifestations associated with infection in all three active disease stages, primary, secondary, and tertiary yaws. More...26 Apr 2018
Assay Detects Hepatitis B in Multiple Specimens
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has led to more than 686,000 deaths worldwide per year. Approximately two billion individuals worldwide are infected with HBV and are at risk of developing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which ranks fifth in terms of malignant cancer mortality. More...25 Apr 2018
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Solvatochromic Trehalose Probe Rapidly Detects TB
Yellow Fever Virus Detected in Urine of Convalescent Patient
Sensitive ELISA Detects ZIKV Infection before Onset of Symptoms
Dual Path Platform Assay Evaluated for Leptospirosis
Portable Quadruplex PCR System Unveiled
Rapid Salivary Test Developed for Zika Virus
Immunoassay Monitors Parasite Persistence in Chagas Disease
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