Performance evaluation of the FAST™ System and the FAST-PBC Prep™ cartridges for speeded-up positive blood culture testing

Performance evaluation of the FAST™ System and the FAST-PBC Prep™ cartridges for speeded-up positive blood culture testing

ObjectivesAs time to appropriate antimicrobial therapy is major to reduce sepsis mortality, there is great interest in the development of tools for direct identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of positive blood cultures (PBC). Very recently, the FAST™ System (Qvella) has...

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Main Authors: Alexia Verroken, Chaima Hajji, Florian Bressant, Jonathan Couvreur, Ahalieyah Anantharajah, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Qvella
FAST™ System
positive blood cultures
direct MALDI-TOF MS
bacteremia
direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.982650/full

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