UK Collaboration to Develop Hospital Pathogen MDx Tests

May 18, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — A UK-funded collaboration is developing a hand-held molecular testing system for identifying two pathogens responsible for hospital-acquired infections, Cambridge Design Partnership said today.

Nottingham Trent University, Universal Sensors, and Cambridge Design Partnership formed a strategic alliance to develop an environmental diagnostic device that can detect the presence of Clostridium.difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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