Pathogen-Specific Bacterial Imaging in Nuclear Medicine

When serious infections are suspected, patients are often treated empirically with broad-spectrum antibiotics while awaiting results that provide information on the bacterial class and species causing the infection, as well as drug susceptibilities. For deep-seated infections, these traditional diagnostic techniques often rely on tissue biopsies to obtain clinical samples which can be expensive, dangerous, and has the potential of sampling bias. Moreover, these procedures and results can take several days and may not always provide reliable information.

Source: Seminars in Nuclear Medicine - December 14, 2017 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Alvaro A. Ordonez, Sanjay K. Jain Source Type: research