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Welcome to The Future of Diagnostic Tests
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f you have a chronic or recurring infection, getting accurate results of diagnostic tests can make a big difference in your quality of care and quality of life. Patients with infections value the resolution that comes from accurate testing, diagnosis, and good treatment that MicroGenDX’s NextGeneration DNA Sequencing (NGS) enables. When a patient is infected, they will usually be prescribed an antibiotic or antifungal by their healthcare provider. These antimicrobials are often chosen based on culturing, growing the specimen in a petri dish. There are limitations to this 150-year-old technology that MicroGenDX is helping to solve. MicroGenDX uses DNA sequencing technology to identify all bacteria and fungi in a sample from an infected patient, no growth required. NGS detects many microbes that cultures often miss. This provides a patient’s physician with a more comprehensive result enabling appropriate and optimized therapy.
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infections (UTI), prostate infections, hip and knee infections, wound infections, sinus infections, lung infections and more. The company continues to conduct research t o expand the evidence base for the technology, with more than 35 published clinical studies and more than 40 ongoing clinical trials.
MicroGenDX’s NGS has a number of benefits over “Our mission at MicroGenDX traditional culture and PCR is to improve clinical outcomes labs: by offering clinicians and their patients the most informative Accuracy. The and impactful microbial MicroGenDX test matches diagnostic tests that science patient samples against can provide,” says CEO Rick its microbial database of Martin. MicroGenDX makes 50,000 species for maximum a difference for patients like accuracy in the NGS results. Kelsey, who struggled with a urinary tract infection so painful that it left her bedridden. When Kelsey finally received the correct antibiotic to treat her infection based on - Affordability. The MicroGenDX offers low rates for both qPCR and NGS MicroGenDX test results, she was able to recover and return to a pain-free to help clinicians and patients control costs without sacrificing quality. life. - Speed. MicroGenDX has the quickest turn around time of any NGS “What makes MicroGenDX unique is our curated database of over 50,000 provider on the market at 3-5 business days for most NGS samples. microbes, our improved turnaround time, our patient-friendly price point, and our clinical research data that strongly supports the clinical utility of - Variety. The MicroGenDX lab accepts a broad range of samples and can provide information on hard to culture and uncommon bacterial and Next-Generation Sequencing,” Martin emphasizes. fungal species, including Mycobacterium and Molds. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a technology that allows for more specific identification of disease-causing organisms than the traditional - Antibiotic Resistance: MicroGenDX recognizes the threat that cultures and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) genetic tests used by many antimicrobial resistant organisms present to current medicine and the over labs. Although the technology itself is not new, MicroGenDX, which 35,000 deaths a year it causes. The use of NGS allows for targeted antibiotic has been in business for 12 years, has made NGS possible for use in an treatment that helps combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance. everyday clinical setting. In the past, NGS technology was expensive and MicroGenDX also detects the presence of 17 antibiotic resistance genes time-consuming. Today, NGS is used by a variety of major companies allowing clinicians to avoid ineffective treatments. and research institutions, including NASA, through MicroGenDX, and MicroGenDX is helping to open the door for the use of NGS in clinical Visit microgendx.com for more information about the company’s services, and check them out on social media via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. medicine. MicroGenDX provides results for diagnoses related to urinary tract -(NewsUSA)