Background. Bloodstream infections can cause life-threatening complications. Early targeted
antimicrobial therapy is crucial to decreasing mortality and improving outcomes. Direct …

We compared the accuracy of direct susceptibility testing (DST) with conventional
antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), both using disk diffusion, on clinical samples. A …

The CLSI AST Subcommittee has developed and published breakpoints for direct blood
culture disk diffusion (DD) testing of several antimicrobial agents for Enterobacterales and …

Materials and Methods: An experimental study was carried out after obtaining waiver of
consent, in a tertiary care centre. A total of 37 patients were included in the study after …

The use of rapid disk diffusion or modified automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing
(AST) system approaches demonstrates excellent performance for gram-negative organisms …

Background: Antibiotic resistance poses a significant threat to patients suffering from
infectious diseases. Early readings of antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) results could be of …

Abstract Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for bloodstream infection (BSIs) are
increasingly common. Decisions regarding which RDT to implement remains a clinical …

Background We investigated the feasibility of rapid disc diffusion antibiotic susceptibility
testing (rAST) with reading of inhibition zones after 6 and/or 8 h of incubation for …

Accurate and early susceptibility results could reduce overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics
for empirical treatment of bacteremia. Direct disk diffusion testing (dDD) using …

Sepsis represents a life-threatening infection requiring the immediate start of antibacterial
treatment to reduce morbidity. Thus, laboratories use direct antimicrobial susceptibility …