Rapid Antibiotic Resistance Test Turns on the LAMP

Looking back through antiquity, it’s not difficult to imagine how many lives would have been spared horrible anguish and death if antibiotic drugs had been discovered sooner. Conversely, the overuse of those same compounds, starting at a much earlier date, would probably make microbial drug resistance even worse than the exponential rise we are currently witnessing. Many species of bacteria have evolved resistance to commonly used antibiotics, and multidrug-resistant bacteria—so-call