Genpax, a life science startup focused on transforming healthcare in detecting, tracing, and mitigating the spread of bacterial pathogens, has been announced as a winner by the IET for their 2023 Excellence and Innovation Awards. The Awards celebrate the most pioneering engineering and technology innovations across 16 sectors, from energy and sustainability to manufacturing and healthcare. Chosen by a panel of expert judges, Genpax won the Health Technology award for their re

NEW YORK – Bioinformatics company Genpax estimates that healthcare systems can save considerable money while preventing infection outbreaks through microbial whole-genome sequencing. In a study published earlier this month in Microbial Genetics, the London-based company calculated that implementing a WGS surveillance strategy could prevent some 74,000 infections annually in England, saving the National Health Service approximately £480 million ($604.5 million) per year, amoun

Download the full paper below: Abstract Bacterial healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality. The estimated cost associated with HAIs ranges from $35 to $45 billion in the USA alone. The costs and accessibility of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of bacteria and the lack of sufficiently accurate, high-resolution, scalable and accessible analysis for strain identification are being addressed. Thus, it is timely to determine

A recent economic modelling paper by Genpax, published in Microbial Genomics, concludes that in England, the National Health Service (NHS) could save close to £0.5bn and prevent 1200 avoidable deaths, and the US health system over $3bn and 4,800 deaths by implementing whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a tool to control bacterial healthcare-associated infections. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a huge economic burden to global healthcare systems. They currently cos

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Presented by John Fox at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2024 Bacterial HAIs are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in increased length of hospital stay and high healthcare costs. At Genpax, we're often asked what the benefit of adopting a WGS led intervention strategy could have on hospitals systems, so we developed at thorough model to work it out. Our findings will be presented at the forthcoming ASM Microbe 23 meeting in Houston in June. If y

Download high-resolution pdf below: A Novel Multi-Scale Outbreak Detection and Strain Identification Capability for Genome Sequence-Based Infection Control: An MRSA Example. J. C. Littlefair, B. Uttley, D. Frampton, J. F. Peden, N. J. Saunders The exclusion (as well as inclusion) of strains is vital for outbreak investigation and infection prevention and control of healthcare-associated infection, for both health resource management and patient-care. Current genome-sequence b

It is repeatedly stated that we face a global challenge of antimicrobial resistance and catastrophic health and economic impacts, and that this is the product of misuse, abuse, and essentially over-use of antibiotics. It is hard to argue, and I would not wish to, that this is at least partly the case, but it is both dangerous and misleading to present this as the whole of the explanation. What we are seeing is an inevitable consequence of many pressures and their inevitable e

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