UK hospitals are rolling out a test that detects the cause of serious illness within hours

Name: UK hospitals are rolling out a test that detects the cause of serious illness within hours
Uploaded: 2024-02-07T17:05:35Z
Duration: 1 min 41 s
Description: Typically, doctors have to cultivate a patient sample in a petri dish over several days before they can test it for pathogens. The new method takes only hours. It passes an electric current over the sample and uses an algorithm to detect any bacteria, virus or parasite present as well as any drug the patient might be resistant to.

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UK hospitals are rolling out a test that detects the cause of serious illness within hours

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