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Device may provide rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections

May 9, 2016

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a device with the potential of shortening the time required to rapidly diagnose pathogens responsible for health-care-associated infections from a couple of days to a matter of hours.