A "Culture" Shift: Broad Bacterial Detection, Identification, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Directly from Whole Blood.

BACKGROUND: The time required for bloodstream pathogen detection, identification (ID), and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) does not satisfy the acute needs of disease management. Conventional methods take up to 3 days for ID and AST. Molecular diagnostics have reduced times for ID, but th...

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Published in:Clinical Chemistry Vol. 64; no. 10; pp. 1453 - 1463
Main Authors: Andini, Nadya, Hu, Anne, Luming Zhou, Cogill, Steven, Tza-Huei Wang, Wittwer, Carl T., Yang, Samuel
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Oct2018
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