The rapid evaluation of bacterial growth and antibiotic susceptibility in blood cultures by selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 255-261

  Allardyce, Randall A ^a   Hill, Alex L ^b   Murdoch, David R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Syft Technologies Limited Christchurch   (New Zealand)

^c CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antibiotic susceptibility; BacT ALERT; Bacteremia diagnosis; Blood culture; Mass spectrometry; SIFT MS

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; INOCULATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33746398875     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.01.031     Document Type: Article

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