August 3, 2022
MicroGen Diagnostics is growing its business for targeted sequencing-based orthopedic and urological infection detection on the heels of new contracts and outcomes studies…. the JBJS study showed the MicroGen test detected polymicrobial infections in a majority of cases that had shown no organism growth after standard microbial culture. Karan Goswami, first author on the JBJS study and a researcher at the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in Philadelphia, said in an email that work marks “the largest cohort reporting the utility of NGS in isolating infective organisms in culture-negative cases.”…