A fluorogenic probe can detect the activity of multidrug-resistant pathogens in an assay system
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

Carbapenems are among the `antibiotics of last resort` and can fight infections for which other drugs have long lost their effectiveness. However, even carbapenem-resistant pathogenic strains have emerged over the last decades. To find out whether a pathogen contains carbapenem-cleaving enzymes, the carbapenemases, Chinese scientists have developed a simple and fast assay based on a fluorescent probe and optical detection. They introduce their approach in the journal Angewandte Chemie .