IS-diagnostics Publishes Validation of PCR-Based Clinical Metagenomic MDx

Jan 22, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers in the Netherlands have published a validation of an automated PCR-based bacterial metagenomic molecular diagnostic method from IS-diagnostics.

An analysis of 66 clinical samples published last week in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology showed the open molecular approach was able to find more bacterial species than routine culture.

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