Acceleration of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Positive Blood Cultures by Inoculation of Vitek 2 Cards with Briefly Incubated Solid Medium Cultures | Zendy

Evgeny A. Idelevich | Zendy; Isabel Schüle | Zendy; B. Grünastel | Zendy; Jörg Wüllenweber | Zendy; Georg Peters | Zendy; Karsten Becker | Zendy

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Acceleration of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Positive Blood Cultures by Inoculation of Vitek 2 Cards with Briefly Incubated Solid Medium Cultures

Author(s) -

Evgeny A. Idelevich,

Isabel Schüle,

B. Grünastel,

Jörg Wüllenweber,

Georg Peters,

Karsten Becker

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.02400-14

Subject(s) - inoculation , antimicrobial , microbiology and biotechnology , blood culture , biology , medicine , immunology , antibiotics

Briefly incubated agar cultures from positive blood cultures were used for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) by Vitek 2. The cultivation time until inoculation was 3.8 h for Gram-positive cocci and 2.4 h for Gram-negative rods. The error rates were low, providing early and reliable AST without additional time or cost expenditure.

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