Culture-independent microbiology: reducing delays in the diagnosis of severe infections and detection of antimicrobial resistance from days to hours. [ 1/1/2021 - 12/31/2023 ]

Research Grant

Brief description Serious infections require early effective antibiotic treatment. To provide evidence that an antibiotic will be effective, current tests take 2-5 days and this leads to a reliance on broad spectrum antibiotics, which can cause harm. Our new diagnostic methods, can produce results in 4-6 hours. We will demonstrate the real-world benefit of these methods by assessing samples taken from patients with three high risk infections and compare our test to currently available results.

Funding Amount $949,589

Funding Scheme Ideas Grants

Chief Investigator Dr Aron Chakera

Notes Ideas Grants