To ensure that sepsis patients receive appropriate
antibiotics as quickly as possible, Fraunhofer IGB researchers have
developed a diagnostic procedure that uses high-throughput
sequencing of blood samples and delivers results much faster than
conventional culture-based techniques. Thanks to the latest
single-molecule sequencing techniques, this process has now been
further improved so that pathogens can be identified after just a
few hours. The basic methodology is currently being tested in a
multi-center study with several hundred patients.
