Technologies

Medical Sciences

Title:	Magnetic biosensor device for a highly sensitive and rapid detection of bacteria in complex matrices.
Area:	Medical Sciences
Focus Area:	Healthcare, Digital Health
Status:	Proof of concept
Social Benefits:	directly lead to a rapid, sensitive, and specific test to detect and identify bacterial infection in blood. The test will enable healthcare providers to prescribe an effective treatment of sepsis during its early stage before it becomes more dangerous.
Developing Agency:	Siamaf Healthcare Private Limited, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Technology Readiness Index:	TRL-3
Source Title:	Data sourced from Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

Brief Description

Description :

The present gold standard, bacterial blood cultures and susceptibility testing, requires days to obtain a result. The initial treatment with empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics not only is inadequate but also promotes antimicrobial resistance AMR . The high mortality of sepsis and AMR is partly due to the inability to rapidly detect and identify bacteria in the early stages of infection.