By Ethan Covey
A new study has found that Unyvero Hospitalized Pneumonia (HPN) multiplexed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic panels (OpGen) are able to detect pneumonia pathogens earlier than culture testing in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 infection.
The results may help healthcare professionals reliably identify and treat infections early (Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2022 [41]:1093-1098).
“It is widely recognized that microbiological culture methods lack