A BLOOD TEST MAY HELP REDUCE ANTIBIOTIC USE

It can detect within 2 hrs if bacteria or virus is source of infection,reduce drug consumption.

A new blood test can help cut down on unnecessary use of antibiotics by detecting within two hours if bacteria or virus is the source of an infection ,scientists say,
It could stop patients being given antibiotics when they are not needed ,scientists say it is still a laboratory stage but the team is working on a portable device too.

A team of scientists from several medical centers in is real in collaboration with the company MeMed developed the new test,A large clinical  study has validated the ability of the diagnostics blood test to determine whether a patient  has a acute bacterial or viral infection. Unlike most infection disease diagnostics that body's immune response to accurately  characterize the cause of the infection.

Bacterial and viral infections are often clinically in distinguishable, leading to antibiotic overuse and contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance.The inability to rapidly differentiate infections also results in the underused of antibiotic estimated to occur in 20-40% of all bacterial infections,putting patients at risks of complications and increasing health care sosts."antibiotic missuse is a pressing public health concern, with devastating sequence..

\Rapid accurate and actionable diagnostic tools are an important part of the solution because they can aid physical in making better informed treatment decisions.the technology leverages the fact that bacteria and virus trigger different pathways in the immune system..

By conducting extensive screening of immune system portions in patients with acute infections,researchers identified there soluble proteins that are uniquely activated bacteria or viruses..