A recent study published in Scientific Reports compared the detection of pathogenic microbes between blood culture and metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in patients suspected of ...

A collaborative team has re-engineered the process of microbial pathogen identification in blood samples from pediatric sepsis patients using broad-spectrum pathogen capture technology. The advance ...

Critically ill patients with polymicrobial bloodstream infections had comparable 90-day all-cause mortality to those with monomicrobial infections, irrespective of whether potential contaminants were ...

New Delhi: Managing life-threatening bloodstream infections caused by superbugs (bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics) is over 54 percent costlier compared to treating infections that ...

In current practice, people who are clinically unwell and who have a suspected bloodstream infection have empirically prescribed broad‑spectrum antibiotics, that is, antibiotics that are prescribed ...

Fungal and bacterial pathogens can cause bloodstream infections (BSI), are a persistent and deadly threat to both civilian and military populations, 1, 2 and are particularly prevalent in the military ...

Scientists at Washington State University (WSU) have uncovered a startling behavior among some of the world’s deadliest bacteria — they’re attracted to human blood, a phenomenon they’re terming ...

(LONDON) — A collaborative team led by researchers from Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOSH), London and including researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...