Direct inoculation method using BacT/ALERT 3D and BD Phoenix System allows rapid and accurate identification and susceptibility testing for both Gram-positive cocci and Gram-negative rods in aerobic blood cultures

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-134

  Yonetani, Shota ^a   Okazaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Araki, Koji ^a   Makino, Hiroshi ^a   Fukugawa, Yoko ^a   Okuyama, Takahiro ^a   Ohnishi, Hiroaki ^a,b   Watanabe, Takashi ^a,b  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Blood culture; Bloodstream infection; Gram positive cocci; Rapid identification

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTIAM; CEFOXITIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HABEKACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; TELITHROMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; AEROMONAS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE SYSTEM; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM MENINGOSEPTICUM; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERROR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENERAL DEVICE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INOCULATION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RAOULTELLA ORNITHINOLYTICA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS WARNERI; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861197417     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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