Development of a treatment algorithm for streptococci and Enterococci from positive blood cultures identified with the Verigene gram-positive blood culture assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3869-3871

  Alby, Kevin ^a   Daniels, Lindsay M ^a   Weber, David J ^b   Miller, Melissa B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOMYCES; ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATOPOBIUM; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; LABORATORY TEST; MASS SPECTROMETER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTHIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VERIGENE GRAM POSITIVE BLOOD CULTURE ASSAY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 84886533405     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01587-13     Document Type: Article

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