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Diagnostic Digest

  • February 23, 2021

    BIOFIRE SARS-CoV-2 Syndromic Testing Based on Updated WHO Guidelines

    Here's what users of BIOFIRE's SARS-CoV-2 syndromic testing solutions should know in response to the WHO's updated testing guidelines.

  • February 02, 2021

    Rapid PCR for Pneumonia Pathogen Identification

    Pneumonia patients are frequently overtreated with antibiotics due to the difficulty to quickly identify cause. PCR technology helps alleviate this issue.

  • February 02, 2021

    Viruses 101

    Viruses have co-existed with humans well before our our earliest evolutionary origins. Learn all about viruses, how they operate, and how they are diagnosed.
  • November 11, 2020

    World Pneumonia Day

    November 12th is World Pneumonia day, raising awareness of the infectious disease that claimed 2.5 million lives in 2020, and how to protect against it.
  • October 27, 2020

    Cost Savings Benefits: BIOFIRE® FILMARRAY® System

    Increased pathogen detection, reduced hospital length of stay, reduced antibiotic therapies—the BioFire System offers numerous cost saving benefits.

  • October 14, 2020

    The History of Coronaviruses

    What we don't know about COVID-19 still outweighs what we do know, however, COVID-19 isn't the first coronavirus to infect humans. Learn more about coronaviruses.

  • September 22, 2020

    Epidemiology: Tracking and Mitigating Disease

    Epidemiologists work every day to confront a variety of health and safety threats, from influenza to Salmonella infection outbreaks.

  • September 11, 2020

    Now’s the Time to be Sepsis Aware

    Learn the facts about sepsis. 

  • August 27, 2020

    Remembering Kary Mullis, Pioneer of PCR

    Dr. Mullis’s groundbreaking invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laid the foundation for BIOFIRE's syndromic testing.
  • August 11, 2020

    Bloodstream Infections: The Impact of Syndromic Testing on Patient Care and Antimicrobial Stewardship

    Systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of molecular rapid diagnostic tests and the role syndromic panels can play in antimicrobial stewardship.