New innovations in engineering are allowing scientists to speed up that diagnostic process by sidestepping the need to watch for bacterial division altogether. A novel approach involves observing how the structure of individual bacterial cells changes in response to such antibiotic exposure, and only takes three to four hours. This rapid test could help clinicians to more quickly identify the best antibiotic and switch patients over to the correct treatment course, the study’s lead author Sunghoon Kwon of Seoul National University wrote via e-mail. The new findings were published in the December 17 Science Translational Medicine.
Developing such diagnostic advances is exactly what the World Health Organization called for this year in a sobering global analysis of antibiotic resistance. In too many cases, WHO noted, available tests take too long to run so physicians forgo them and simply prescribe broad-spectrum drugs. Developing faster tests that would lead to more targeted drug treatments would be a crucial step to help safeguard medications, the report said. If the new method makes its way into treatment centers it would be a step in the right direction. “The ability to determine changes in the structure of the single cell makes this unique among rapid-type analyses and it is an optimistic sign that this could be the beginning of a new area of study,” says Stuart Levy, director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University School of Medicine.
His wife let out a cry. The cigarettes were ironclad proof of guilt and the gutter character of these men. The pack passed from hand to hand and caused a renewed round of condemnation, and I felt in my own pocket for an identical pack.
Cousin Young Buck appeared and pulled me aside. “They saw us,” he whispered urgently, “talking to them.” He was trembling with fright. “I’m related to them. You can’t say a word, not one word. Ever.”
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New innovations in engineering are allowing scientists to speed up that diagnostic process by sidestepping the need to watch for bacterial division altogether. A novel approach involves observing how the structure of individual bacterial cells changes in response to such antibiotic exposure, and only takes three to four hours. This rapid test could help clinicians to more quickly identify the best antibiotic and switch patients over to the correct treatment course, the study’s lead author Sunghoon Kwon of Seoul National University wrote via e-mail. The new findings were published in the December 17 Science Translational Medicine.
Developing such diagnostic advances is exactly what the World Health Organization called for this year in a sobering global analysis of antibiotic resistance. In too many cases, WHO noted, available tests take too long to run so physicians forgo them and simply prescribe broad-spectrum drugs. Developing faster tests that would lead to more targeted drug treatments would be a crucial step to help safeguard medications, the report said. If the new method makes its way into treatment centers it would be a step in the right direction. “The ability to determine changes in the structure of the single cell makes this unique among rapid-type analyses and it is an optimistic sign that this could be the beginning of a new area of study,” says Stuart Levy, director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University School of Medicine.
His wife let out a cry. The cigarettes were ironclad proof of guilt and the gutter character of these men. The pack passed from hand to hand and caused a renewed round of condemnation, and I felt in my own pocket for an identical pack.
Cousin Young Buck appeared and pulled me aside. “They saw us,” he whispered urgently, “talking to them.” He was trembling with fright. “I’m related to them. You can’t say a word, not one word. Ever.”
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