Assays for improving automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing accuracy
US11268960B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 10, 2019 |
| Grant date | Mar 8, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 23, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2333/986
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), the gold-standard diagnostic that indicates whether an antimicrobial will be clinically effective, often suffer the slowest times-to-result for the most resistant pathogens. Here we introduce novel assays to be performed in parallel with standard AST assays that enable rapid, same-shift reporting of AST results for a plurality of pathogens. The assays developed here are further capable of detecting resistance to carbapenems, the most powerful class of beta-lactams commonly used as “last-resort” antimicrobials.
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