Health workers can identify infections by placing a 400ml urine sample on a phone-sized cartridge which slots into a shoebox-sized analyser unit.Health workers can identify infections by placing a 400ml urine sample on a phone-sized cartridge which slots into a shoebox-sized analyser unit.
Previously, doctors would send a sample to a laboratory for tests with results in 24 hours, giving a turnaround time of two or three days. Dr Sherry Taylor, an NHS GP partner in London said access to the test would “revolutionise” patient care in the UK, where laboratory tests take “around three days”.About a quarter of infections are resistant to older antibiotics, which have been retired from general use as a result. The test opens up the possibility that those antibiotics could be brought back.