Read this article !! This sounds very exciting to me! I didn't really realize that when people are having trouble responding to antibiotics that it might be because the culture didn't identify what bacteria was there!!!!
This link says in part:
Pace and his colleagues at CU-Denver's Health Sciences Center and Denver's Children's Hospital identified more than 60 species of bacteria in samples of 28 cystic fibrosis patients in Denver. <b>Thirteen samples contained bacteria that are not routinely assessed by culturing.</b>
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203173034.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...07/12/071203173034.htm</a>
This link says in part:
Pace and his colleagues at CU-Denver's Health Sciences Center and Denver's Children's Hospital identified more than 60 species of bacteria in samples of 28 cystic fibrosis patients in Denver. <b>Thirteen samples contained bacteria that are not routinely assessed by culturing.</b>
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203173034.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...07/12/071203173034.htm</a>