Aid in ID of E coli/P aeruginosa.Among new tests being approved by the Food and Drug Administration under its 510(k) clearance is the first diagnostic test for identifying Escherichia coli Escherichia coli (ĕsh'ərĭk`ēə kō`lī), common bacterium that normally inhabits the intestinal tracts of humans and animals, but can cause infection in other parts of the body, especially the urinary tract. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa A normal soil inhabitant and human saprophyte that may contaminate various solutions in a hospital, causing opportunistic infection in weakened Pts Clinical Infective endocarditis in IVDAs, RTIs, UTIs, bacteremia, meningitis, 'malignant' directly from positive blood cultures. This latest addition to AdvanDx' easy-to-use, molecular-based PNA PNA Palestinian National Authority PNA Phoneline Networking Alliance PNA Peptide Nucleic Acid PNA Personal Navigation Assistant PNA Pacific/North American PNA Polish National Alliance (established 1880 in Chicago, Illinois) FISH diagnostics platform is the E coli/P aeruginosa PNA FISH, which provides critical results 24 to 48 hours sooner than conventional methods to help clinicians improve care and outcomes for patients with bloodstream infections. An estimated 100,000 patients develop bloodstream infections due to Gram-negative pathogens such as E coll and P aeruginosa, spending an average of five to 24 days in the hospital, suffering mortality rates as high as 40%, and costing institutions, on average, $40,000 to $60,000 per case, according to articles in Antimicrobial Agent and Chemotherapy and Clinical Infectious Diseases Clinical Infectious Diseases in an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press which publishes articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by infectious agents. . |
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