Wound with Antibiotic Resistance

PCR or molecular diagnostics testing for the detection of Wound Pathogens in open skin and deep tissue infections. Our wound test identifies all bacterial, viral, and fungal pathogens responsible for these common infections through a simple E-swab specimen from a patient.

There are many differences in laboratory diagnostic testing methods used for pathogen identification. These infectious disease tests include conventional culture-based techniques, point-of-care serological methods, and precision molecular-based testing. 

Wound pathogen testing is frequently inaccurate, incomplete, and cannot identify any antibiotic resistance, producing an ineffective report for physicians that may lead to continuing infections in wound healing patients.

This testing process often leads to a trial-and-error approach to treating wound infections, wasting valuable treatment time for patients, contributing to antibiotic resistance, and allowing persistent infections to spread from their original site.

 Molecular PCR based testing offers many advantages over these other methods of detection such as accuracy, inclusion of antibiotic resistance, and timing of test results. 

• Easily identifies polymicrobial infections
• Quick clinical decision
• More accurate the culture
• Reduces false negatives
• Not affected by antibiotic use
• Antibiotic gene resistance identification
• Reduces unnecessary antibiotics
• Helps avoid unnecessary hospitalization
• Access results via web portal

 Real-time PCR assays compared to culture-based approaches for identification of aerobic bacteria in chronic wounds - PubMed (nih.gov)