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RE: Using paper to detect antibiotic resistant bacteria: Developing amazing assays from a commonplace item

in #steemstem7 years ago

I didnt know that there is such technology to actually determine the presence of beta lactamase producting organisms apart from the standard culturing. Blood culture results usually cost days to be available and detecting this organism much earlier may help us to change to appropriate antibiotics, which will result in better outcomes for patients. Nice info !

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Yeah, earlier detection is one of the major reasons why this is being developed. Hopefully it gets to the market soon.

Besides earlier detection, the lack of refrigeration, liquid handling, multiple reagents, etc make these ideal for developing world testing, which is where they would be most useful.

Absolutely!