Can We Stop Stabbing Babies? – Salivary Diagnostics for Sepsis Screening in the Neonate
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Every day, across the neonatal care unit, babies are being stabbed to collect their blood for sepsis tests. Adding to this dismal situation, diagnostics developed to assess sepsis in blood are very inaccurate, leading to the unnecessary prescription of antibiotics. Researchers at the Wyss Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created a more accurate diagnostic platform using easily collected saliva and testing for sepsis more accurately.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University