Till T Bachmann

Existing AMR traits are spreading globally, and resistance to newly licensed antimicrobials or novel mechanisms of resistance to older agents continue to emerge11,12. Many high-quality and recent scientific, economical, public health-oriented and educational reports have been published on the subject13,14. Although these reports cover various AST-related subjects, with respect to AST, there are two basic diagnostic needs.

Circulating biomarkers are on the verge of becoming powerful diagnostic tools for various human diseases. However, the complex sample composition makes it difficult to detect biomarkers directly from blood at the bench or at the point-of-care. Blood cells are often a source of variability to the biomarker signal.

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