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A new low-cost portable device to test antibiotic sensitivity has been developed by Suman Kapur, a scientist at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus here.
The technology is being transferred to an incubate company, Xcellence in Bio Innovation and Technologies Pvt Ltd, for commercial scale production.
An agreement was signed by VS Rao, Director, BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus, with the representative of the company in the presence of Kapur in this regard, according to a release issued here on Monday.
Describing it as the "fastest antibiotic finder available till date", Kapur said the new technology, developed with funding received from NPMASS- DRDO, was expected to obliterate the empirical use of antibiotics and thus help fighting the growing microbial resistance to antibiotics.
In reliability and cost, the device was comparable to the conventional assays for antibiotic sensitivity of pathogens, she added.
It could be used in any setting including a clinic, lab or hospital, to test antibiotic sensitivity of pathogens found in human biological fluids and tissue scrapings and comes with a ready-to-use kit. The results could be known in a couple of hours as against the normal wait of 2-3 days for a sample to be cultured and tested in any lab.
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