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How to quickly identify sepsis-causing bacteria – melt it down

Stephanie Fraley (left) reviews bacterial DNA melt curve data with her graduate students(Credit: UCSD) When a patient is diagnosed with sepsis, a medical syndrome that kills more people than breast cancer, prostate cancer and HIV combined, it sets off a countdown for doctors to treat the infection and uncover the culprit causing the body’s systems to shut down....