Microarray to detect bacterial pathogens in soldiers' combat wounds
The Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA) can detect bacterial pathogens in the wounds of U.S. soldiers that have previously been missed by other technologies.
This advance may, in time, allow an improvement in how soldiers' wounds are treated.
In a three-year study by LLNL and four other institutions, in about one-third of wound samples in which the standard culture method found no bacteria, the Livermore microarray detected one or more bacterial pathogens.
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