In a world-first, a research team in Western Australia develops a faster method of detecting bacterial infections, in a move that should also combat antibiotic resistance.
A device that measures hundreds of thousands of individual bacteria in a matter of seconds helps determine how successful the antibiotics have been.
The growth of antimicrobial resistance is a major global health issue, with estimates that 1.27 million people die from resistant infections each year.Dr Mulroney said he hoped the new method would drive down those predicted figures.
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