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Nosocomial infections: Automated typing and data mining

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Health and Human Services 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
54238 		Program Year/Program:
2001 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
1R43AI050257-01 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
MIDI, INC.
MIDI, INC. 125 SANDY DR NEWARK, DE 19713
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2001
Title: Nosocomial infections: Automated typing and data mining
Agency: HHS
Contract: N/A
Award Amount: $97,560.00
 

Abstract:

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nosocomial infections cause about 90,000 deaths annually in the U.S. and have an associated medical care cost of about 3.5 billion dollars. Despite being the fourth leading cause of death, there has been limited development of rapid, integrated tools for determination of outbreaks of hospital-acquired infections. The goal of the proposed research is to test feasibility of development of software algorithms for identifying clusters of bacteria involved in nosocomial infections. This will be accomplished by creation of new algorithms for clustering bacterial fatty acid composition data to detect infection clusters and through the creation of a "data mining" algorithm to provide patient demographic information needed to distinguish nosocomial outbreaks from community-acquired infections or pseudo-outbreaks. These software algorithms will be integrated into the MIDI Sherlock Microbial Identification System as a fully automated real-time epidemiology tool. Hospital infection-control personnel will be able to use the output to immediately implement infection control measures, and thus to reduce the impact of nosocomial infections. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE

Principal Investigator:

Myron Sasser

Business Contact:


3027374297
SASSER@MIDI-INC.COM
Small Business Information at Submission:

MICROBIAL ID, INC.
115 BARKSDALE PROFESSIONAL CTR NEWARK, DE 19711

EIN/Tax ID: 510339655
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees: N/A
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No