Thread Bioscience brings healthcare professionals the data they need where they need & when they need it.
Thread’s innovative approach to differentiating log phase vs lag phase microbial growth in determining bacterial presence provides greater accuracy and faster results.
Thread’s CultureStat is a rapid Point of Care test for Urinary Tract infection (UTI) performed in-situ using a broth culture media to indicate the absence of log phase bacteria. Healthcare practitioners can provide an accurate diagnosis in less time.
The inability of other testing methods to distinguish lag phase and log phase states prohibits them from providing the information required to determine the risk of an infectious state resulting from the presence of log phase bacteria. CultureStat provides the necessary data so a health care practitioner can make timely, accurate diagnoses not possible with other methods of bacteriuria testing.
In addition to providing better diagnosis by rapidly identifying the state of bacterial presence CultureStat is a valuable front line tool in the global battle against antimicrobial resistant “super bugs”. Providing rapid, accurate results to Providers promotes antimicrobial stewardship. Antimicrobial resistance is a major health issue facing the global population.
The impact of antimicrobial stewardship is both individual and societal on a global scale. Patients suffering from UTI’s that may be misdiagnosed by less accurate or more timely methods suffer the individual consequences of improperly prescribed antibiotics. Society suffers from the impact of the antimicrobial resistance cycle that is exacerbated by improper prescribing of antibiotics due to inferior testing methods.