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o slow down the rise of non-curable infections, a Dutch company developed a diagnostic kit to identify strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns citizens for several years now: many antibiotics are becoming useless to heal bacterial infections. Indeed, bacteria develop new defence mechanisms to resist the action of antibiotics. By accurate detection of these resistance mechanisms, prescription of useless antibiotics can be avoided. Instead, an appropriate antibiotic treatment can be prescribed to cure the patient.