MicroGenDX Blog

Dr. Lyle Haskell has built a reputation over the past twenty five years as a compassionate, innovative and skilled provider in the fields of Podiatric Medicine and Foot & Ankle Surgery. In his effort to better care for his patients, Dr. Haskell tried MicroGen DX’s DNA based diagnostic testing and came to find that it benefitted both him and his patients enormously. He sat down with us to share his experience, and the drastic difference he has found between traditional cultures and MicroGen DX’s DNA based testing. “Typical cultures and sensitivities could take a long period of time to do,” […]

Keith Matheny, MD, is a published researcher in his field, the recipient of many awards, and has practiced medicine for fifteen years. As an ENT doctor, he knows the importance to having the right diagnostic information when choosing a treatment. Recently he took the time to share with us his experience in using MicroGen DX’s two part DNA test to help clear his patients’ infectious conditions. “There are so many patients,” Dr. Matheny told us, “that come to me out of frustration having been treated chronically with 7, 10, 14 days of antibiotics. Many patients have been extremely grateful to […]

Nurse Practitioner Lisa Zambrano works for the Urology Clinics of North Texas, and she sat down with us to share the experiences she has had working with doctors who use MicroGen DX to diagnose infections. MicroGen DX uses a two part test to accurately and quickly identify the microbes in a sample using their DNA. After using cultures to diagnose infections for most of her career, just as anyone in the medical care field has done, Lisa Zambrano was not quick to simply take MicroGen DX’s word for it that they would make a difference in the care of patients. […]

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.”

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.” […]