UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 26 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Sepsis, a life-threatening condition that stems from the body trying to fight off an infection, plagues over 1.5 million patients a year in the U.S. alone, with one in three deaths recorded in the hospital attributed in part to sepsis. Despite the severity of the condition, which can kill in as little as 12 hours, it takes between two and seven days for most traditional approaches to definitively identify sepsis-causing bacteria in blood infections.
A team led by an engineer at Penn State has developed a way to condense the days-long diagnosis timeline to just hours. The new approach rapidly grows the bacteria present ...