Ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients with COVID-19

Publication: Critical Care

Mailis Maes, Ellen Higginson, Joana Pereira-Dias, Martin D. Curran, Surendra Parmar, Fahad Khokhar, Delphine Cuchet-Lourenço, Janine Lux, Sapna Sharma-Hajela, Benjamin Ravenhill, Islam Hamed, Laura Heales, Razeen Mahroof, Amelia Solderholm, Sally Forrest, Sushmita Sridhar, Nicholas M. Brown, Stephen Baker, Vilas Navapurkar, Gordon Dougan, Josefin Bartholdson Scott and  Andrew Conway Morris

11 January 2021


Summary:
A DNA test to identify secondary pneumonia in patients with severe COVID-19 has been created by Cambridge researchers. Bacteria samples need to be collected from patients and grown in a lab to identify them – this could take days. Now researchers have created a test which will detect the DNA of the bacteria within hours. Clinicians will then be able to start the right course of treatment a lot sooner. This new test is being rolled out at Cambridge University Hospitals.
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