It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without the need for invasive blood tests.

Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine ...

Establishes new standard for fighting hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and appropriate antibiotic use “Our initial product, as well as the family of tests we intend to offer based on our ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally occurring carbon isotope and exhaled CO(2) to catch bacterial infections. MEMPHIS, ...

Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have developed a pocket-sized breath test they say can detect malodorous bacteria in the mouth and alert people that they could have bad breath. The ...

These motility organs play important roles in DNA uptake to exchange genetic information between different bacteria, allowing what's so-called genomic plasticity. Therefore, bacterial motility organs ...

Hydrogen breath tests are a diagnostic tool that doctors use to identify small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), lactose intolerance, and other digestive conditions. The test measures the amount ...

A new ribonucleic acid expression-measuring blood test can help determine if a bacterial or viral infection caused fever in infants, according to a study published in the Journal of the American ...