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Article: MicroPhage Results on Rapid S. aureus/MRSA Blood Culture Test Published.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- June 10, 2009
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The performance of a new diagnostic test platform that rapidly identifies Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus, "staph") bacteremia and determines antibiotic resistance or susceptibility in as little as five hours was presented at the 109th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Philadelphia, PA this week (see also MicroPhage, Inc.).
The poster summarized the performance of the test prototype in a multisite clinical trial in late 2008 in three separate clinical microbiology laboratories. In 711 evaluable clinical samples, the test demonstrated perfect specificity for S. aureus, with no cross reactivity against non-target organisms, and high ...