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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 151-157Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10096-020-04014-3
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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing; Directly from blood cultures; Gram-negative rods
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Shortening the turnaround time of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of bacteria can significantly reduce patient morbidity, mortality, and cost. Directly obtaining faster AST results from positive blood cultures can provide reliable and accurate results 1 day earlier, offering a simple, fast, and cheap method for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
Shortening the turnaround time of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of bacteria permits a significant reduction of patient morbidity, mortality, and cost. Conventional blood culture methods are the gold standard diagnostic test to guide management of patient with sepsis, but the conventional process requires at least 12 to 24 h after the blood culture has been flagged as positive due to requirement for pure colonies. We describe a simple and inexpensive method to obtain faster AST with MicroScan system (Beckman Coulter) directly from positive blood cultures. Conventional and direct identification and AST were performed simultaneously by both methods in 1070 blood cultures, and 9106 MICs were determinated. About 96.5% were correctly identified with the direct method. Overall, categorical agreement was 92.86%. We found 46 very major errors, but globally the results showed a good correlation with the standard method, particularly favorable forE. coliandK. pneumoniae, except amoxicillin-clavulanate and piperacillin-tazobactam. ForP. mirabilis, betalactams antibiotics (except second- and third-generation cephalosporines) showed a good correlation, and also a good correlation was found for ciprofloxacine and gentamicine inP. aeruginosaand amoxicillin-clavulanate, ciprofloxacine, gentamicine, and cotrimoxazole inE. cloacae. This method has the main advantage of providing reliable results 1 day earlier, being a simple, fast, and cheap method for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing results from positive blood cultures.
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