Comparing BioFire FilmArray BCID2 and BCID panels for direct detection of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes from positive blood cultures

Venere Cortazzo, Tiziana D'Inzeo, Liliana Giordano, Giulia Menchinelli, Flora Marzia Liotti, Barbara Fiori, Flavio Demaio, Francesco Luzzaro, Maurizio Sanguinetti*, Brunella Posteraro, Teresa Spanu Pennestri

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Abstract

This study evaluated and compared the accuracy of BCID2 with that of BCID to identify bacterial species and relative antimicrobial resistance genes directly from positive BCs. We used archived samples from positive BCs (1.5 ml thereof mixed with 100 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide and stored at 280°C), which had prospectively been processed with the BD Bactec 9240 (BD Diagnostic Systems, Sparks, MD), BacTAlert 3D (bioMérieux), or BacTAlert Virtuo (bioMérieux) system at two hospital microbiology laboratories from January 2018 to August 2020.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-4
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume59
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Bacterial pathogens
  • Blood culture
  • Bloodstream infection
  • Molecular diagnostics

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