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June 27, 2017

“This revolutionized the way I practice the management of chronic infections” Andrew Pugliese, MD

Infectious Disease doctor, Andrew Pugliese, M.D., is a pioneer in the non-surgical treatment of acute and chronic sinusitis. He has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years and is triple board certified in infectious disease, sleep, and internal medicine. In recent years he has been able to explore the new technology available through MicroGen DX where in DNA is used to identify the pathogens causing an infection. Dr. Pugliese shared with us his experience in utilizing next generation DNA sequencing for the care of his patients and explained how this tool is offering better, clearer data than previous culture […]

April 20, 2018

“We started doing the DNA sequencing… and were AMAZED.” Michael Lavor, MD

After 23 years in private practice as a general surgeon, Dr. Michael Lavor retired from active practice as a surgeon in July 2014, although he remains with Saguaro Surgical, the practice he founded, as Medical Director. In addition to his work at Saguaro Surgical, Dr. Lavor will continue as Medical Director at The Wound Center where, through state-of-the-art treatments, he remains available to provide specialized therapy for chronic or non-healing wounds. One of the tools Dr. Lavor utilizes in the care of patients is diagnostics from MicroGen DX. MicroGen DX uses Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) and rapid PCR screening […]

April 20, 2018

“I trust it implicitly” Margarita Johnson, MD

We sat down for a brief interview with Margarita Johnson, MD, who practices at Urology Clinics of North Texas. She talked with us about the frustrations faced when an infection causes symptoms in a patient, yet the cultures return no information about the causative microbes. “You do miss a lot of the bacteria,” she said about her experience with traditional cultures. “The patient’s frustrated because sometimes they think they’re crazy because they have the symptoms and nothing is coming back. I’m frustrated because I have this patient that thinks she has a urinary tract infection. I have no answers for her.” […]

April 20, 2018

“MicroGen DX gives us the right key.” Nabeel Syed, MD

Nabeel Syed, MD, graduated from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio in 1989, and today practices at the Urology Clinics of North Texas. He shared with us the experience he has had in using MicroGen DX to help his patients. “We use MicroGen DX in patients basically to try and pinpoint the exact type of infection that they’re having,” he told us. “We have a range of thousands of different bacteria that it can detect for. Using the next-gen sequencing, it really helps to identify the appropriate antibiotic.”