Health research: Commission awards €1 million to breakthrough test which distinguishes between viral or bacterial infections

On the 9 February 2017 the European Commission issued a press release stating it had awarded a €1 million to a breakthrough test which distinguishes between viral or bacterial infections.

Carlos Moedas the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, handed over a €1 million Horizon Prize for Better Use of Antibiotics, and Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, delivered the EU Health Award for NGOs fighting Antimicrobial Resistance, at an award ceremony hosted by the University of Leuven in Belgium.

The €1 million Horizon Prize is for a finger prick test that can diagnose in less than ten minutes a bacterial infection and identify if a patient can be treated safely without antibiotics. The easy-to-use test is expected to be available for patients by 2018. It has been developed by Minicare HNL, a combined research effort of P&M Venge AB from Sweden and PHILIPS Electronics from the Netherlands.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key Source: Antimicrobial resistance http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-antimicrobial-resistance-3/

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