Introduction: Blood cultures play an important role in the early diagnosis of sepsis and its
management. Early detection of pathogens in Blood Stream Infections (BSI) and their …

This Prospective study analyses culture result of 134 blood culture samples received in
microbiology laboratory during a five months period between October 2014 and February …

Septicaemia is a major contributor of mortality. Blood culture is the essential investigation for
the management of sepsis. Due to lack of resources blood culture is an irregularly used …

Purpose To determine the accuracy of direct microbial identification (dID) and antimicrobial
susceptibility testing by EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (rAST) …

BACKGROUND Blood stream infections range from self-limiting infections to life threatening
sepsis that require rapid and aggressive antimicrobial treatment. Timely detection and …

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients.
Around 20 million cases of severe sepsis arise each year worldwide. Rapid and accurate …

Background: Laboratories with well-established diagnostic stewardship program for culture
and antimicrobial susceptibility test (C-AST) play a key role in guiding the clinicians to …

Introduction: Automated blood culture systems provide continuous monitoring of bacterial
growth, and time to positivity (TTP), may be used as good tool for diagnosis of blood stream …

Introduction: Blood cultures are a proven gold standard method for the identification of
causative agents of bloodstream infections. Identification of causative organism along with …

This study aimed to assess the performance of our in-house method for rapid direct bacterial
identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) using a positive blood culture …