Gradientech’s QuickMIC® showed rapid and reliable results in new study
Gradientech is pleased to announce positive study results obtained from clinical blood culture samples using QuickMIC, Gradientech’s ultra-rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) system. The antibiotic susceptibility results were available in an average of 3 hours, which is considerably faster than any other phenotypic AST method in the market.The study was run in collaboration with Uppsala University Hospital. A total of 41 clinical samples from sepsis patients were analysed using the QuickMIC system. Results for gram-negative bacteria were obtained in an average of 3 hours and had