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Does Rapid Antimicrobial Testing for Gram-Negative Bacteremia Improve Outcomes?

Trial comes up negative, but shorter hospital stays observed in carbapenem-resistant cases ...
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Rapid blood infection test fails to improve survival

Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing for gram-negative blood infections shows no improvement in clinical outcomes ...
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Fast antimicrobial susceptibility testing for gram-negative bacteremia

Among patients with gram-negative bacilli bloodstream infections, rapid blood culture antimicrobial susceptibility testing was not superior to standard testing by desirability of outcome ranking. When ...
Nature

Detection of catheter-related bloodstream infections by the Gram stain–acridine orange leukocyte cytospin test in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

The aim of the present prospective study was to assess the validity of the Gram stain–AOLC test for the diagnosis of CRBI in HSCT recipients with nontunnelled CVCs, using the DTP/clinical criteria as ...