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April 20, 2018
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
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 […]
June 27, 2017
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 […]
June 27, 2017
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. He recently sat down to share with us some of his experience in using next Generation DNA sequencing in the care of his patients. Specifically, Dr. Pugliese explained how the ability to identify multiple different species of pathogen is vital to the care of certain wounds, especially when the infection has developed into a biofilm state. “I had heard […]
May 18, 2017
Doctor Michael McDonald sat down with us recently to share his experience evaluating Next Generation DNA sequencing when compared to traditional cultures. Dr. McDonald is a urologist, board certified at Florida Hospital Celebration in Florida. He is associate professor of Urology at University of Central Florida. “When we were first introduced to the Next-Gen Sequencing,” Dr. McDonald told us, “we thought we need some criteria to evaluate its efficacy of diagnosis in the realm of urinary tract infections and other opportunities. I wanted to look at a head to head study, comparing Next-Gen Sequencing and urine cultures for patients with UTI […]