TY - JOUR
T1 - New Approaches for Imaging Bacteria
AU - Jain, Sanjay K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Sources of Financial Support: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health R01-AI145435-A1 and R01-AI153349 to S.K.J.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Bacterial infections are a major threat to human health. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of bacterial infections is essential for early interventions and rational use of antibiotic treatments. However, antibiotics are often initiated empirically while diagnostic tests are being performed. Moreover, traditional diagnostic tools, namely microscopy, microbiology and molecular techniques, are dependent upon sampling suspected sites of infection, and then performing tests. This approach is often invasive, labor intensive, time consuming, and subject to the uncertainties of incorrect sampling and contamination. There are currently no imaging approaches for the specific detection of bacterial infections. Therefore, there is a need for new noninvasive approaches to detect, localize and monitor bacterial infections with high sensitivity and specificity.
AB - Bacterial infections are a major threat to human health. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of bacterial infections is essential for early interventions and rational use of antibiotic treatments. However, antibiotics are often initiated empirically while diagnostic tests are being performed. Moreover, traditional diagnostic tools, namely microscopy, microbiology and molecular techniques, are dependent upon sampling suspected sites of infection, and then performing tests. This approach is often invasive, labor intensive, time consuming, and subject to the uncertainties of incorrect sampling and contamination. There are currently no imaging approaches for the specific detection of bacterial infections. Therefore, there is a need for new noninvasive approaches to detect, localize and monitor bacterial infections with high sensitivity and specificity.
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U2 - 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.12.002
DO - 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.12.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36702730
AN - SCOPUS:85146834564
SN - 0001-2998
VL - 53
SP - 138
EP - 141
JO - Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
JF - Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
IS - 2
ER -