Prospective study of the feasibility of point-of-care testing strategy for carbapenem-resistant organism detection

Background/aims In an investigator-initiated, prospective study, we evaluated the feasibility of a five-gene sequence point-of-care (POC) testing strategy (Xpert CARBA-R Assay, Cepheid Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA), compared to reference laboratory PCR (48 – 72 hours turnaround time, two gene sequences)...

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Main Authors: Rahul Pannala, Bruce Baldwin, Vijay Aluru, Thomas E. Grys, Jordan Holmes, Laurence J. Miller, M. Edwyn Harrison, Cuong C. Nguyen, Fred C. Tenover, David Persing, Douglas O. Faigel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018-01-01
Series:Endoscopy International Open
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0043-122141