Gastrointestinal infections are a major cause of diarrheal illness worldwide and result in millions of emergency department visits and hospitalizations annually.
Clinicians have often utilized a combination of several types of testing to reach a diagnosis consisting of cultures, microscopy, antigen detection and colonoscopy. These tests require rigid collection techniques and are labor intensive, time consuming, and often inconclusive.
Rapid and accurate detection of culprit pathogens is vital for patients to receive appropriate therapy and take proper infection control measures to prevent the progression and spread of disease.
Clinical Solution
Vikor Scientific™ offers the clinician access to the most advanced molecular methodology for pathogen detection, quantification, and resistance gene identification. Vikor delivers rapid and precise results simultaneously through a value-based technology platform, ABXAssist™, which incorporates regional sensitivity and susceptibility patterns, medication costs, antibiotic spectrum of activity, and FDA guidance.
The end product is a patient-centered, value-based care solution that enables providers to make informed treatment decisions that could avoid inappropriate therapy, excess costs, adverse drug events and the progression of disease.
Clinical Advantages
- Prevents delays in diagnosis and treatment (*results within 24 to 48 hours post specimen arrival to lab)
- Detects polymicrobial infections simultaneously
- Identifies up to 49 antibiotic resistance genes in 12 antibiotic categories including Methicillin, Carbapenem and Vancomycin resistance
- Markedly less susceptible to being affected by concurrent antibiotic therapy
- Reduces unnecessary drug exposure and adverse events
- Decreases the progression and spread of infection
- Provides up-to-date regional sensitivity and susceptibility patterns
- Improves selection of narrow-spectrum antibiotics
- Prepares clinicians to make cost-effective treatment decisions
- Easily accessible results (mobile, web-portal or EMR integration)
* Test results could be delayed in some circumstances when there is error in clerical documentation, collections, lab handling, or a delay in shipping.
