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. 2012 Jul;50(7):2452-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00409-12. Epub 2012 Apr 18.

Strategy for rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of gram-negative bacteria directly recovered from positive blood cultures using the Bruker MALDI Biotyper and the BD Phoenix system

Jana L Wimmer  1 , S Wesley Long, Patricia Cernoch, Geoffrey A Land, James R Davis, James M Musser, Randall J Olsen
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Strategy for rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of gram-negative bacteria directly recovered from positive blood cultures using the Bruker MALDI Biotyper and the BD Phoenix system

Jana L Wimmer et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Jul.

Abstract

Decreasing the time to species identification and antibiotic susceptibility determination of strains recovered from patients with bacteremia significantly decreases morbidity and mortality. Herein, we validated a method to identify Gram-negative bacteria directly from positive blood culture medium using the Bruker MALDI Biotyper and to rapidly perform susceptibility testing using the BD Phoenix.

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