Health
New diagnostic test rapidly identifies bugs responsible for pneumonia – The Conversation UK
It takes around 61 hours to identify the pathogen causing a patient’s pneumonia. A new test reduces that to four hours.
Pneumonia is one of the worlds deadliest infectious diseases, killing around 2.6 million people a year. In severe pneumonia, the tiny air sacs inside the lungs become filled with so much fluid and pus that patients struggle to breathe. In many people, this is fatal.
Patients can deteriorate very quickly, which means treatment is often given based on the persons symptoms without knowing the underlying pathogen causing the condition. Part of the problem is that it can take several days to culture…
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