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As 2019 comes to a close, ASCLS would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of ASCLS eNewsBytes a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 7.
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Medical News Today
From Aug. 6: Sepsis occurs when the body has an extreme reaction to an infection. The reaction is so severe that it can cause organ failure and death. A new diagnostic tool, however, may be able to quickly identify sepsis biomarkers in a tiny amount of blood.
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Infection Control Today
From Nov. 5: Frank Drews, Ph.D., and his research team had interviewed many hospital employees, from environmental services workers to physicians, hoping to find the kind of clue that could advance patient safety. Before long, they noticed a peculiar habit.
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Purdue University via Lab Manager
From April 6: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that causes infection in various parts of the body, is often called a "superbug" thanks to its ability to dodge many common antibiotics. Although most MRSA infections aren't serious, some can be life-threatening, sometimes resulting in amputation of the infected appendage.
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Contagion Live
From Nov. 5: Gram-negative bacteria, such as Acinetobacter baumannii, Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, are a rising concern for human health. Globally, gram-negative bacteria have displayed increasing resistance to carbapenem and cephalosporin antibiotics.
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Outbreak News Today
From April 2: The human cost of not getting vaccinated is well known — measles, diphtheria and other outbreaks reported across the globe. All very unnecessary. The history of the success of vaccines is well documented. Nearly 200 million cases of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, adenovirus, rabies and hepatitis A — and approximately 450,000 deaths from these diseases — were prevented in the U.S. alone between 1963 and 2015 by vaccination, researchers estimate in a 2016 study. However, there is also a huge economic and workforce cost to the public health departments, health institutions and ultimately the taxpayer.
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The miniiSED™ is the newest addition to the iSED™ family of ESR analyzers from ALCOR Scientific. The miniiSED™ is a single position, fully automated ESR analyzer that works directly from the primary EDTA tube and produces an ESR result in just 15 seconds. The miniiSED™ is the ideal ESR analyzer for small laboratories, POL’s and emergency clinics.
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NBC News
From April 30: New cases of measles reported in New York, New Jersey and California bring the total number of infections in the U.S. to at least 695 so far in 2019 according to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the most for a year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Recently, New York City and suburban Rockland County confirmed an additional 37 measles cases, and California reported seven new cases.
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Newsweek
From May 21: In January, Columbia University revealed that four patients at its Irving Medical Center in New York had been sick with an unusual version of E. coli, a common gut bacterium. Although the news largely escaped attention in the media, it ricocheted through the world of infectious disease experts. E. coli is a relatively common bacterium and benign when it’s in the gut, where it usually lives, but in the wrong places — such as in lettuce or ground beef, or our bloodstream — it can turn deadly.
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News Medical Life Sciences
From April 16: In January, Columbia University revealed that four patients at its Irving Medical Center in New York had been sick with an unusual version of E. coli, a common gut bacterium. Although the news largely escaped attention in the media, it ricocheted through the world of infectious disease experts. E. coli is a relatively common bacterium and benign when it’s in the gut, where it usually lives, but in the wrong places — such as in lettuce or ground beef, or our bloodstream — it can turn deadly.With the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance, there is a growing need for new treatment strategies against life threatening bacterial infections. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen may have identified such an alternative treatment for bacterial meningitis, a serious infection that can lead to sepsis. The study is published in Nature Communications.
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HealthDay News
From June 4: A gene-based blood test can accurately detect breast, colorectal, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, gastric or bile duct cancers in patients, researchers report.
The test uses artificial intelligence to identify and interpret "fragments" of DNA in the blood that indicate the presence of cancer, explained researchers led by Dr. Victor Velculescu.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests.
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HealthDay News
From Sept. 17: Ten cancer drugs being tested in human clinical trials appear to work — but not in the ways their developers thought they would, researchers say.
"The idea for many of these drugs is that they block the function of a certain protein in cancer cells. And what we showed is that most of these drugs don't work by blocking the function of the protein that they were reported to block," said study co-leader Jason Sheltzer, a fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
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