Faster resistance analysis for patients with blood poisoning
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
When treating cases of blood poisoning, doctors resort immediately to broad-spectrum antibiotics. The problem is that in many cases the bacteria are resistant to the medicine. Analyzing antibiotic resistance is a time-consuming process, and for many patients the results come too late. Now a new technique has been developed that supplies results in just nine hours.