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Acinetobacter baumannii (A baumannii) is dangerously increasing its profile as a health care-associated infection. Resistance rates to some antibiotics are rising and multiple mechanisms of resistance constitute a growing public-health problem, especially for health care facilities.

Current hospital tests for the bacterium Clostridium difficile (C difficile) are not accurate enough and a new two-stage process should be introduced to avoid misdiagnosis and its consequences, according to new research.

Since bacteria rapidly evolve to evade the action of new antibiotics, the drugs quickly lose their effectiveness. A novel approach to the antibiotic problem, interestingly, is not an antibiotic at all but a new class of anti-microbial agent known as aganocides.

AdvanDx announces that a new medical study demonstrated use of its PNA FISH test reduced mortality by 42% for patients with highly drug resistant Hospital-Acquired Enterococcus faecium bloodstream infections (BSIs)