UCI Receives Up to $5 Million to Advance Bloodstream Infection Detection Technology
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
A UC Irvine research team will receive up to $5 million to further develop a bloodstream infection detection system that speeds up diagnosis times with unprecedented accuracy - allowing physicians to treat patients with potentially deadly ailments more promptly and effectively. The five-year federal award is part of a National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases program to fund nine institutions that will create tools to identify certain pathogens that frequently cause infections in healthcare settings - especially those that are resistant to most antimicrobials.