Evaluation of the Performance of Direct Susceptibility Test by VITEK-2 from Positively Flagged Blood Culture Broth for Gram-Negative Bacilli

Evaluation of the Performance of Direct Susceptibility Test by VITEK-2 from Positively Flagged Blood Culture Broth for Gram-Negative Bacilli

Background Timely initiation of antimicrobial therapy in patients with blood stream infection is absolutely necessary to reduce mortality and morbidity. Most clinical microbiology laboratories use conventional methods for identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) that involve bio...

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Main Authors: Kavipriya D., Suman Susan Prakash, Sarumathi Dhandapani, Deepashree Rajshekar, Apurba Sankar Sastry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021-07-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
Subjects:
antimicrobial susceptibility testing
bloodstream infections
categorical agreement
essential agreement
enterobacteriaceae
nonfermenters
vitek-2
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0041-1732489

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