Blood culture remains the best approach to identify the incriminating microorganisms when
a bloodstream infection is suspected, and to guarantee that the antimicrobial treatment is …

In this review we examine the literature related to emerging technologies that will help to
reshape the clinical microbiology laboratory. These topics include nucleic acid amplification …

By shortening the time to pathogen identification and allowing for detection of organisms
missed by blood culture, new molecular methods may provide clinical benefits for the …

The last decade has seen an explosion of advanced assays for the diagnosis of infectious
diseases, yet evidence-based recommendations to inform their optimal use in the care of …

Background For far too long, the diagnosis of bloodstream infections has relied on time-
consuming blood cultures coupled with traditional organism identification and susceptibility …

The identification of organisms from positive blood cultures generally takes several days.
However, recently developed rapid diagnostic methods offer the potential for organism …

Can we exploit our burgeoning understanding of molecular evolution to slow the progress of
drug resistance? One role of an infection clinician is exactly that: to foresee trajectories to …

Molecular assays designed to provide bacterial identification and detection of resistance
genes directly from positive blood cultures can significantly reduce the time to definitive …

ABSTRACT The Verigene tests for Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms in blood
culture and the FilmArray blood culture identification panel were assessed for their ability to …

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) represent a major cause of death in developed countries and
are associated with long-term loss of functions. Blood culture remains the gold standard for …