Rapid Identification of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Carbapenemase Genes via PTR-MS
Xuan Teng, Kexue Yu, Qi Zhang, Chengcheng Ma, Wenwen Chu, Chengyin Shen, Zhou Liu · 2025
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Description
Seven authors led by Xuan Teng build a breath-test style tool to spot drug-proof lung germs in hours. The germ is a hospital threat that can shrug off carbapenem drugs, a last-line class. Which gene gives that shield shapes the cure, yet gene tests take time. Their tool sniffs the gases germs give off as they grow, read by a fine mass tool, while drugs press on the culture.
The test set held 105 germ strains from patient samples, split near half and half by drug proof status. With one drug in the mix, the sniff test caught near all proof strains and flagged no false ones. A fast split step named the gas marks in play. Times ran near three hours, far under gene test norms. The team pitches it for busy labs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xuan Teng, Kexue Yu, Qi Zhang, Chengcheng Ma, Wenwen Chu, Chengyin Shen, Zhou Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |