Recent Advances in Rapid Diagnosis and Analysis of Infectious Agents in Human Blood Stream

The ability to rapidly diagnose and analyze infectious agents such as pathogens in human blood stream is considered pivotal and an important step for patient treatment and effective monitoring. This is also essential to ensure the safety of the donor blood supply. This has driven research in medical biotechnology and the focus has been on developing rapid diagnostic ability that enables detect and identify pathogens in blood borne infections. This research seeks to mitigate the challenges involving infections such as pathogens induced sepsis. These infections are believed to be a major cause of mortality in hospitalized patients worldwide. It is of general consensus that establishing a rapid diagnosis would not only enable an early and adequate antimicrobial therapy but it would also result in positive clinical outcomes for patients. In this perspective, we have presented a brief overview of some of the notable recent advances in diagnostics to detect infectious agents in human blood.