ABOUT · OUR LAB
No clinician — and no patient, human or animal — should have to gamble on an infection.
Quantitative PCR · Antibiotic resistance testing · Next-day results from receipt
Who we are
A CLIA-certified PCR laboratory built to take the guesswork out of infectious disease.
We don't simply tell a provider that an organism is present. We tell them how much of it is there, and which antibiotics it is likely to resist — the two facts that decide whether the first prescription works or fails.
Our panels are built around the conditions clinicians actually see, and every report is written to be read at a glance.
Why it matters
Every wrong drug teaches the organisms that survive to survive again.
4.7M
deaths a year linked to bacterial resistance
1 in 6
lab-confirmed bacterial infections already resistant
2.8M
resistant infections a year in the U.S.
35,000
U.S. deaths a year from those infections
Sources: World Health Organization · U.S. CDC
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most urgent threats to global health — and it is accelerating.WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The sequence runs backwards
Treatment starts blind. The answer arrives days later, often after the guess has already failed.
A patient — or a pet — arrives with an infection. Therapy begins on a best guess, before anyone knows the organism or the drug that will beat it.
A culture is sent, and the result comes back days later, sometimes after the course is finished. Each failed guess means another prescription, and each unnecessary prescription nudges resistance a little further along.
We move the answer to the front
Quantitative PCR that measures the organism and screens for the genes that predict failure.
Quantitative, not just yes or no. We report how much of an organism is present — the difference between true infection and harmless colonization.
Resistance, up front. A full antibiotic resistance panel flags the genes that predict failure, so the first drug is the right one.
Next-day, from receipt. The provider gets the pathogen and the drug together, before a second guess is ever needed.
of infections missed by standard culture were identified by molecular testing in a study of older adults.Wojno KJ et al., Urology 2020;136:119–126 · mean age 77
Who we serve
Skilled nursing and long-term care, and veterinary practices — the same science on both sides.
Residents are older, frailer, and least able to withstand a missed infection or a wrong antibiotic — yet the tools used to diagnose them have changed little in generations.
Canine and feline UTI, skin and ear — the same quantitative panels, the same resistance genes, the same next day.
One lab. One health.
Resistance doesn't respect the line between human and veterinary medicine.
The same organisms and the same resistance genes move between people, animals, and the environment — so we work both sides of that line with the same science.
Every panel we run is a small act of stewardship: the right drug, used once, instead of the wrong drug, used again and again.
Our lab
| Method | Real-time qPCR |
| Certification | CLIA # 10D2337377 |
| Laboratory Director | Dr. Wayne Cai, MD |
| Turnaround | Next-day from receipt |
888.350.9829 · Info@LotusDxLab.com
10800 Biscayne Blvd, Ste 725 · Miami, FL 33161
