Rapid diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia using the BacT/Alert 3D system

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 352-356

  Capoor, Malini R ^a,b   Nair, Deepthi ^a   Aggarwal, Pushpa ^a   Gupta, B ^a  

^a SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Cefepime; Community acquired pneumonia; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CALCULATION; CHILD; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33947360163     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702006000500010     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Baron E.J., Finegold S.M. Normally Sterile body fluids, bone and bone marrow. In: Forbes B.A., Finegold D.E. and Weissfeld A. eds. Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology. Mosby, New York. 1998.
2. World Health Organization. WHO Infectious diseases report graph 5.htm, 1999 accessed on 25.7.2002
3. Berman S. Acute epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children of developing countries. Rev Infect Dis 1991;13:S454-62.
4. Broor S., Lalitha M.K., Chaudhary R., et al. Acute lower respiratory tract infections in India. Ind J Med Microbiol 1999; 17:4-9.
5. Levison M.E. Pneumonia, including necrotizing pulmonary infections (lung abscess). In: Fauci S.A., Braunwald E., Isselbacher K.J., et al (eds). Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Mc Graw-Hill, New York. 1998.
6. Diaz A., Calvo M., O'Brien A., et al. Clinical usefulness of blood cultures in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Rev Med Chil 2002; 130:993-1000.
7. Blondeau J.M., Tillotson G.S. Antimicrobial susceptibility of respiratory pathogens- a global perspective. Seminars in respiratory infections online (Saunders) 2001; 15:1-17.
8. Snyder J.W., Benzing K.S., Munier G.K., et al. Clinical comparison of nonvented aerobic Bac T/Alert blood culture bottle and standard aerobic bottle for detection of microorganisms in blood. J Clin Microbiol 2000;38:3864-6.
9. Krishner K.K., Whyburn D.R., Koepnick FE. Comparison of the Bac T/ Alert Pediatric blood culture system, Pedi-Bac T, with conventional culture using the 20 Millilitre Becton-Dickinson supplemented peptone broth tube. J Clin Microbiol 1993;31:793-7.
10. Pickett D.A., Welch D.F. Evaluation of the automated Bac T/Alert system for pediatric blood culturing. Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1994:320-24.
11. Bourbeau P., Riley J., Heiler B.J., et al. Use of Bac T / Alert blood culture system for culture of sterile fluids other than blood. J Clin Microbiol 1998;36:3273-7.
12. Lakshmi V. Culture of body fluids using the Bac T/ Alert system Indian J Med Microbiol 2001;19:67-72.
13. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, 14th informational supplement M100-S14, 2004, Wayne, Pa.
14. Martinez R.M., Partal Y., Cases J., et al. An infrequent cause of false positive blood cultures. Clin Microbiol Newsletter 1993; 15: 1.
15. Nascimento-Carvalho C.M.C. Etiology of childhood community acquired pneumonia and its implication for vaccination. Braz J Infect Dis 2001;5:82-97.
16. Bansal S., Kashyap S., Pal L.S., Goel A. Clinical and bacteriological profile of community acquired pneumonia in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2004;46:17-22.
17. Invasive bacterial infection surveillance (IBIS) Group, International clinical epicemiology network (INCLEN). Prospective multicentre hospital surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae disease in India. Lancet 1999;353:1216-22.
18. Lalitha M.K., Thomas K., Manohoran A., et al. Changing trend in susceptibility pattern of Streptococcus pneumoniae to penicillin in India. Indian J Med Res 1999; 110: 164-8.
19. Jain A., Kumar P., Awasthi S. High nasopharyngeal carriage of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and Hemophilus influenzae in North Indian School Children. Trop Med Int Health 2005;10,234.
20. Song J.H., Lee N.Y., Ichiyama S., et al. Spread of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Asian countries ANSORP study. Clin Infect Dis 1999;28:1206-11.
21. Mera R.M., Miller L.A., Daniels J.J.P., Weil J.G Increasing prevalence of multidrug-reistant Streptococcus pneunioniae in the United State over a 10-year period: Alexander project. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2005;51:195-200.
22. Pottumarthy S., Fritsche T.R., Jones RN. Comparative activity of oral and parenteral cephalosporins tested against multidrug-resistant Streptococcus penumoniae report from the SENTRY antimicrobial surveillance program (1997-2003). Diagn Microbiol Infect Disease 2005;51:147-50.
23. Metlay J.P. Community-acquired pneumonia: impact of antibiotic resistance of clinical outcomes. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2003;15:163-7.
24. Ang J.Y., Ezike E., Asmar B.I. Antibacterial resistance. Indian J Pediatr 2004;71:229-39.
25. Harbarth S., Francois P., Schrenzel J., et al. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis 2005; 11:962-5.