Sepsis and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) account for growing numbers of deaths and healthcare costs worldwide. It is believed that sepsis causes over 5 million deaths annually. One report predicts that AMR could cause over 10 million deaths globally per year by 2050. Both sepsis and AMR in the clinic can be challenging. While good antibiotic [...]

Published in Diagnostics World, 2019 Diagnostics for acute infections and sepsis typically focus on “finding the bug,” but most patients with infections do not have pathogens in their bloodstream. Companies like Inflammatix are committed to this issue, using host-response diagnostics to read a patient’s immune system. Inflammatix’s CEO, Tim Sweeney, believes novel technologies coupled with [...]