New Assay to Detect CRE Available

From the press release:

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared for marketing the Xpert Carba-R Assay, an infection control aid that tests patient specimens to detect specific genetic markers associated with bacteria that are resistant to Carbapenem antibiotics.”

Read the Cepheid release here.

 

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