EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing of blood cultures positive for Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae: experience of three laboratories in Italy

Venere Cortazzo; Liliana Giordano; Tiziana D'Inzeo; Barbara Fiori; Gioconda Brigante; Francesco Luzzaro; Flora Marzia Liotti; Giulia Menchinelli; Maurizio Sanguinetti; Teresa Spanu; Brunella Posteraro

doi:10.1093/jac/dkaa554

EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing of blood cultures positive for Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae: experience of three laboratories in Italy

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

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Sir, Recently, EUCAST developed a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (RAST) method for direct use on positive blood culture (BC) samples, which relies on EUCAST standard disc diffusion (DD) methodology and allows inhibition zone reading within 4–8 h of BC positivity.We herein report on EUCAST RAST results for BCs consecutively collected between June 2019 and December 2019 that contained E. coli (n = 134)or K. pneumoniae (n = 66) isolates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1110-1112
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Volume	76
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkaa554
Publication status	Published - 2021

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RAPID DIAGNOSTIC BLOOD CULTURE

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Cortazzo, V., Giordano, L., D'Inzeo, T., Fiori, B., Brigante, G., Luzzaro, F., Liotti, F. M., Menchinelli, G., Sanguinetti, M., Spanu, T., & Posteraro, B. (2021). EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing of blood cultures positive for Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae: experience of three laboratories in Italy. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 76, 1110-1112. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkaa554

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EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing of blood cultures positive for Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae: experience of three laboratories in Italy

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