BMJ

Frequencies and patterns of microbiology test requests from primary care in Oxfordshire, UK, 2008–2018: a retrospective cohort study of electronic health records to inform ...

Objectives To inform point-of-care test (POCT) development, we quantified the primary care demand for laboratory microbiology tests by describing their frequencies overall, frequencies of positives, ...
Frontiers

Multiplex on-chip detection of Aspergillus by integrated ultrasonication-based bead beating lysis and magnetic beads direct amplification

When compared with the bead-beating-based BIOFIRE® FILMARRAY® 2.0 System (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Étoile, France), the USBB system incorporates an ultrasonic design. This modification theoretically ...
Frontiers

Specialty grand challenge in gastrointestinal infections

Implementation of the BioFire FilmArray GI panel, for instance, has been associated with reductions in antibiotic use and earlier transition to optimal therapy in some hospital settings (13). Yet ...
The Lancet

Neonatal bacterial sepsis

iInstitute for Global Health and Development, The Aga Khan University South-Central Asia, Karachi, Pakistan ...