Early diagnosis can save lives, hospital bills

iGenetic offers molecular diagnostics and next generation sequencing

Pathology labs and diagnostic centres are everywhere in Hyderabad, but when Prashanth Reddy's father was in an intensive care unit (ICU) he could not find a lab that would deliver a septicemia (infection of the blood) test report within 24 hours. His search ended after a lab technician referred him to iGenetic Diagnostics, which uses molecular techniques for identifying critical infections and drug resistance.

Traditional microbiology techniques are time consuming. It takes two to three days to grow bacterial cultures and much longer to grow fungi and other pathogens (bacteria that cause disease). At times, if the patient is on