Toilet Microphone Sensor Could Detect Disease
Maia Gatlin of the Georgia Institute of Technology described how a noninvasive toilet microphone sensor could identify bowel diseases.
Category: Gastrointestinal Infections
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New Test Ups Ability to ID C. Difficile
Researchers used a novel, highly sensitive test to measure the amount of toxin produced by C. difficile in the stool of patients with suspected infections.
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FDA Clears Applied BioCode Respiratory Pathogen Panel
The panel tests nasopharyngeal swabs for the most common respiratory viruses and bacteria.
Study Finds Gastrointestinal Complaints in Children May Signal Future Mental Health Problems
A Columbia-led study finds disruptions in the body’s gut microbes triggered by early-life adversity are linked to brain function.
Read MoreSerum Test Measures, Monitors Mucosal Healing in Crohn’s Disease
Clinical validation of the Monitr test from Prometheus Laboratories has demonstrated high accuracy and concordance rates with endoscopically visualized mucosal disease activity among adult Crohn’s disease patients, regardless of the anatomical disease location or selected treatment regimens.
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Test IDs Microorganisms from Clinical Isolates
The cost-effective test detects MUG, PYR, and Indole production on a single paper disc in as little as fifteen15 minutes.
Read MoreShiga Toxin Direct Test Gets CE Mark
The test supports sample-to-result testing with less than 1 minute of hands-on time and no specimen enrichment step.
Read MorePartners Collaborate for Rapid Pathogen Identification System
The system was specifically developed to enable decentralized sample processing, while the resulting data can be stored and analyzed centrally anywhere in the world.
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Gastrointestinal Infection Panel Receives CE Mark
Seegene’s Allplex GI panel covers 25 bacterial, viral, and parasitic causes of gastrointestinal infectious disease.
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FDA Clears Most Comprehensive Gastrointestinal Panel to Date
The 22-target FilmArray Gastrointestinal panel from BioFire, Salt Lake City, allows a syndromic approach to the diagnosis of infectious diarrhea by including bacteria, viruses, and parasites in a single test.
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DNA Stool Sample Kit Identifies Gastrointestinal Diseases
The DiaSorin Liaison Ixt/Arrow stool DNA extraction kit uses magnetic bead technology to detect gastrointestinal diseases such as C. difficile, Helicobacter pylori, rotavirus, and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.
Read MoreGastrointestinal Pathogen Panel
The xTAG gastrointestinal pathogen panel from Luminex detects 11 common viral, bacterial, and parasitic causes of infectious gastroenteritis, delivering results within 5 hours.
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Luminex Gets FDA Clearance for MAGPIX Instrument with Novel xTAG Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel
Multiplexing instrument for clinical labs with simultaneous testing for greater than 90% of bacterial, viral, and parasitic causes of infectious gastroenteritis in a single molecular test.
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Luminex Gets FDA Clearance for Comprehensive Gastrointestinal Pathogen Infectious Disease Dx
xTAG Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel simultaneously tests for greater than 90 percent of bacterial, viral, and parasitic causes of infectious gastroenteritis in a single molecular test.
Read MoreNew Clinical Tool Diagnoses Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
New clinical algorithms will give physicians a practical, efficient and cost-effective aid to diagnose the frequent gastrointestinal symptoms that patients commonly bring to their primary care doctors and gastroenterologists.
Read MoreDIATHERIX Laboratories Introduces Gastrointestinal Test Panel
DIATHERIX adds a gastrointestinal (GI) panel to its lineup of sensitive, rapid response diagnostic tests. In a single result, the DIATHERIX GI panel can detect and differentiate nine types of GI infections so physicians can quickly identify patients who have severe, life-threatening infections.
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