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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Shortening the Time of the Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing on Positive Blood Cultures with MALDI-TOF MS.

Ya-Wen Tsai, Ting-Chia Lin, Hsiu-Yin Chou, Huei-Ya Hung, Che-Kim Tan, Li-Ching Wu, I-Jung Feng, Yow-Ling Shiue

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Ya-Wen TsaiDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
Ting-Chia LinDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
Hsiu-Yin ChouDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
Huei-Ya HungDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
Che-Kim TanDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
Li-Ching WuDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
I-Jung FengInstitute of Precision Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan.
Yow-Ling ShiueInstitute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-0798-5028

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Abstract

The current processes used in clinical microbiology laboratories take ~24 h for incubation to identify the bacteria after the blood culture has been confirmed as positive and fa further ~24 h to report the results of antimicrobial susceptibility tests (ASTs). Patients with suspected bloodstream infection are treated with empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics but delayed targeted antimicrobial therapy. This study aimed to develop a method with a significantly shortened turnaround time for clinical application by identifying the optimal incubation period of a subculture. A total of 188 positive blood culture samples obtained from Nov. 2019 to Aug. 2020 were included. Compared to the conventional 24-h incubation for bacterial identification, our approach achieved 96.1% and 97.4% identification accuracy after shortening the incubation time to 4.5 and 3.5 h for gram-positive (GP) and gram-negative (GN) bacterial samples, respectively. Samples from short-term incubation without any intermediate step or process were directly subjected to analysis with the Phoenix M50 AST. Compared to the conventional disk diffusion AST, the category agreements for GP (excluding

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antimicrobial susceptibility testsbacterial identificationseptic shock

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