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Aussie biotech addressing sepsis with new diagnostic

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Australian company Microbio has been awarded a Federal Government Accelerating Commercialisation Grant to commercialise a new diagnostic assay to rapidly identify 26 of the most common pathogens that cause bloodstream infections and sepsis. The InfectID-Blood Stream Infection (BSI) diagnostic assay is a real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) identifies the pathogen causing the infection in about two hours to enable patients to be treated with targeted antimicrobials in a timely manner. Sepsis kills around 11 million people around the world each year. | https://microbio.com.au/news-and-events/ 


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