Clinical Impact of Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Blood Culture Isolates
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 21 (6) , 1023-1024
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.21.6.1023
Abstract
The results of a rapid, direct blood culture disk susceptibility test indicated that antimicrobial chemotherapy should be changed in 48 of 173 patients with bacteremia. In 32 patients (66.6%), the indicated change was made approximately 24 h sooner than if conventional, nonrapid susceptibility tests had been used to guide therapy.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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