Use of PNA FISH for blood cultures growing Gram-positive cocci in chains without a concomitant antibiotic stewardship intervention does not improve time to appropriate antibiotic therapy

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 86-92

  Cosgrove, Sara E ^a   Li, David X ^a   Tamma, Pranita D ^a   Avdic, Edina ^b   Hadhazy, Eric ^a   Wakefield, Teresa ^b   Gherna, Michael ^b   Carroll, Karen C ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic stewardship; Bacteremia; PNA FISH; Rapid diagnostics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; AGED; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG UTILIZATION; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84978115063     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.06.016     Document Type: Article

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