Researchers develop world’s most sensitive test for superbugs

Editor's Note

A diagnostic tool developed by researchers at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, can detect the smallest traces of compounds that signal the presence of an infectious disease, such as C difficile, MRSA, hepatitis C, and other superbugs.

The test has the best sensitivity ever reported for a detection system. It is as much as 10,000 times more sensitive than other systems. 

 HAMILTON, July 6, 2015: Infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and some of the world's deadliest superbugs -- C. difficile and MRSA among them -- could soon be detected much earlier by a unique diagnostic test, designed to easily and quickly identify dangerous pathogens.