What is a wound injury: A wound is a break in the continuity of any tissue on the body, due to an external or internal factor. Many factors, including lifestyle and medical conditions, may slow the wound healing process and increase the risk of infection. Molecular diagnostic methods have been used to accurately identify the composition of chronic wounds and guide treatment in a number of study models.

Who should get tested:

• Feeling of overall malaise
• Green, cloudy (Purulent) or Malodorous drainage
• Increasing or continual pain from wound
• Redness around wound
• Swelling of wounded area
• Hot skin near wound

Why get tested:

Chronic wounds are difficult for physicians to treat and are complicated by risk factors that are either systemic or localized.

Systemic

• Diabetes mellitus
• Vascular disease
• Malnutrition
• Alcoholism prior to surgery

Localized

• The mechanism of injury that created the wound
• Presence of multiple pathogens in the wound
• Antibiotic resistance within the pathogens in the present in the wound
• The duration of the wound
• Size and depth of the wound
• Presence of necrotic tissue

WHAT WE DO:

• Utilize 43 array-based assays to detect a wide array of bacteria, fungi, and antibiotic resistance genes.
• All pathogen DNA is extracted within 48 hours.
• Samples are processed in triplicate to ensure validity of the results.

*testing performed with our partnered laboratories