In a presentation at the current General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) being held in Philadelphia, a simple and inexpensive developmental diagnostic assay produced by MicroPhage, Inc., was shown to be highly accurate for rapid identification of serious staph bacterial infections from skin and soft tissue infections, the group noted in a release.
Thirty three samples from an array of body sites were collected from the St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo Colorado. Of the 33, 8 were determined to have Staphylococcus aureus infections by traditional microbiology methods. Seven of these samples were detected by the prototype rapid assay by …
