Molecular

Antimicrobial Resistance: “The Silent Pandemic”

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are the leading cause of mortality from infection. This is primarily due to growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR), whic…
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Molecular

AMR Surveillance Methods that Don’t Stink

Our very own Dr. Chris Connelly, Director of R&D, was asked to participate in a panel on wastewater surveillance at the World Anti-Microbial Resis…
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Molecular

Companion Animals: A carrier for AMR pathogens?

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant global public health issue, and it’s developing in human pathogens faster than novel antibiotics can…
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Molecular

Preventing infections in dialysis patients

A recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines the challenges faced by 800,000 people in the United States who a…
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Molecular

CDC updates AR investment map

AR occurs when germs are unresponsive to drugs and other chemotherapies designed to kill them. AR threatens to return the world to a time when even si…
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Molecular

Rapid sepsis testing is imperative

Sepsis, a life-threatening progression of organ failure, is caused by improper host response to an infection. These infections can be bacterial, funga…
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Molecular

Wastewater testing for AR

The use of wastewater epidemiology has become, in a few short years, a powerful tool in tracking the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in communities and has facil…
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Molecular

Sepsis in LTC facilities

Governor Pete Ricketts has proclaimed September as Sepsis Awareness Month in the State of Nebraska. The proclamation, signed and sealed on August 19, …
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COVID-19 molecule
Molecular

COVID-19 reverses AR progress

Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issued a press release illustrating the great progress that the health care systems in …
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