Preeti Pancholi, Karen C Carroll, Blake W Buchan, Raymond C Chan, Neelam Dhiman, Bradley Ford, Paul A Granato, Amanda T Harrington, Diana R Hernandez, Romney M Humphries, Matthew R Jindra, Nathan A Ledeboer, Shelley A Miller, A Brian Mochon, Margie A Morgan, Robin Patel, Paul C Schreckenberger, Paul D Stamper, Patricia J Simner, Nancy E Tucci, Cynthia Zimmerman, Donna M Wolk
We describe results from a multicenter study evaluating the Accelerate Pheno system, a first of its kind diagnostic system that rapidly identifies common bloodstream pathogens from positive blood cultures within 90 min and determines bacterial phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results within ∼7 h. A combination of fresh clinical and seeded blood cultures were tested, and results from the Accelerate Pheno system were compared to Vitek 2 results for identification (ID) and broth microdilution or disk diffusion for AST...
April 2018: Journal of Clinical Microbiology