Infectious Disease Diagnostics – Multimedia

A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and several other collaborating institutions have created a fast, ultrasensitive, multiplexed diagnostic TB test, that could be used in low-resource settings.

There are lots of reasons to culture bacteria, many sources from which to culture them and diverse species with equally diverse growth requirements – some pickier than others. To give yourself a fighting chance at successful bacterial culture it is therefore vital to pick the correct culture conditions for your purpose and avoid contamination by using good aseptic technique.

Most well-known for their role in facilitating the easy-to-use human pregnancy test, lateral flow devices have so much more to offer! Find out about their diverse applications, from detecting toxins in food to helping cystic fibrosis patients breathe more easily.

Combating AMR is going to take coordinated action of different approaches, such as improved public education and national action plans, greater surveillance, improved diagnostics, and the ability to harness advances in genomics and big data.

Featuring sweat sensors, epi-signatures, and advances in 3D medical imaging, here's a wrap-up of the most-read diagnostics news stories we covered in 2018.

Doctors are not required to confirm the presence of the
influenza virus before they prescribe antiviral medication. So, why test for influenza? Download this infographic to find out why, and how.

Learn how next-gen sequencing is accelerating the process of diagnosing mysterious infectious diseases and helping doctors to deliver life-saving treatments.

The ability to rapidly determine if a patient has an infectious disease and what type of treatment the infection will respond to, would significantly reduce the treatment decision time, shorten the impact of symptoms, and minimize transfer to others.

This presentation will trace the continuing development of mass spectral techniques from a research tool to a frontline diagnostic platform for clinical microbiology.

In this study, the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) protein, MCM7, was selected as a model target gene to investigate the importance of appropriate reference gene selection and RNA sample quality as described by the MIQE guidelines.