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Make AST faster with FAST method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing

May 27, 2017 by micrognome

The FAST Lab’s first method is available in an open access on-line publication. Meet the team behind the method. See our poster at CYTO 2017.

Filed Under: Featured, Review, μGnews, μGnostics Tagged With: antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial resistance, clinical decision support, culturomics; sepsis; septicaemia; bet hedging, flow assisted antimicrobial susceptibility, flow cytometry, MIC MIC-FAST, multidrug resistance, rapid AST, sepsis

Language lapse or sloppy semantics? Time for accessible words

May 8, 2017 by micrognome Leave a Comment

Leading experts make a plea for standard language to describe the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance. The words we use need to be accessible.

Filed Under: Featured, μGnomics Tagged With: AMR, antimicrobial resistance, clinical microbiology, drug resistant infection, ESKAPE, MDR, multi drug resistant bacteria, multridrug resistance

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Make AST faster with FAST method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Language lapse or sloppy semantics? Time for accessible words

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