Biofire Pneumonia Plus Panel Test Cost & Procedure

This examination is also known as the film array or fire pneumonia panel test. Either one or both lungs may be impacted. From moderate to severe, and occasionally even life-threatening, the symptoms might range. Babies and young children, adults over 65, and people with comorbid conditions like asthma, heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are most likely to experience this. An infection known as pneumonia may be brought on by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or even parasites.

The following are typical pneumonia symptoms:

• Successful cough (with phlegm)
•  Fever and chills together
• Trouble in breathing
• breathing or coughing causes chest pain
• Fatigue
• Vomiting,
• nauseous, and loose stools

This might happen on its own or after a bout of the flu or a typical cold. It may only infect one lung lobe, called "lobar pneumonia."

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacteria-like organism that can cause pneumonia. Often, it only results in minor symptoms and does not leave the patient bedridden. Hence the term "walking pneumonia." A person with impaired immunity, such as one who has AIDS, is receiving chemotherapy, is taking steroids, or has a chronic illness, is more susceptible to developing fungal pneumonia. The symptoms of viral pneumonia are typically not severe, but they can occasionally be, as in the case of COVID-199 infection.

Why is the BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Test recommended?

To identify the etiological agent causing the disease in individuals diagnosed with pneumonia, the healthcare professional may conduct this film array test. As a result, severe morbidity and mortality are reduced by providing timely and effective treatment. The benefits of a pneumonia test include:

• quick outcome
• extremely sensitive and specific
• cut down on hospital stay
• Reduced treatment costs and decreased usage of unneeded antibiotics
• precise treatment
• Antibiotic resistance genes detection.

What makes up the Pneumonia Test components?

The following are the test's goals:

• Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterium.
• Enterobacter cloacae complex,
• Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumanni complex,
• Escherichia coli, the influenza virus,
• Klebsiella pneumoniae group,
• Klebsiella oxytoca, Klebsiella
• aero genes Proteus species,
• Moraxella catarrhalis, and Phage,
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa Sergei marcescent,
• Streptococcus agalactiae,
• Streptococcus pyogenes,
• Staphylococcus aureus,
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae,
• Legionella pneumophila,
• pneumoniae Chlamydia Syncytial
• respiratory virus,
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Human Rhinovirus/Enterovirus, and
• Human Metapneumovirus cancer virus
• genes that withstand antibiotics

Process and Conditions:

• This test uses multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology to identify the pneumonia-causing culprit in a specific patient quickly.
• This test aids in the identification of whether the culture report is negative, the patient is already on antibiotics, or the organism is picky.