Rapid and Accurate Diagnosis of Dermatophyte Infections Using the DendrisCHIP Technology.

Dermatophytosis is a superficial fungal infection with an ever-increasing number of patients. Culture-based mycology remains the most commonly used diagnosis, but it takes around four weeks to identify the causative agent. Therefore, routine clinical laboratories need rapid, high throughput, and accurate species-specific analytical methods for diagnosis and therapeutic management.

The DendrisCHIP Technology as a New, Rapid and Reliable Molecular Method for the Diagnosis of Osteoarticular Infections.

Osteoarticular infections are major disabling diseases that can occur after orthopedic implant surgery in patients. The management of these infections is very complex and painful, requiring surgical intervention in combination with long-term antibiotic treatment. Therefore, early and accurate diagnosis of the causal pathogens is essential before formulating chemotherapeutic regimens.

[Evaluation of 5 years of experimental in utero surgery for the repair of diaphragmatic hernia].

The incidence of diaphragmatic hernia in he newborn is 1:2,500 to 5,000 births. An extensive American programme of foetal surgery for in utero repair of this defect has shown that the pulmonary hypoplasia was due to compression of lung tissue by the herniated organs. This process could be interrupted be repairing the diaphragmatic defect early enough in utero (before the 28th week).