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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2022

The Impact of Implementing the Virtuo Blood Culture System on the Characteristics and Management of Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.

Miguel A Chavez, Satish Munigala, Carey-Ann D Burnham, Melanie L Yarbrough, David K Warren

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miguel A ChavezDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0561-6755
Satish MunigalaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Carey-Ann D BurnhamDepartment of Pathology & Immunology, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1137-840X
Melanie L YarbroughDepartment of Pathology & Immunology, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2166-7552
David K WarrenDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8679-8241
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) has been associated with increased mortality. Enhanced microbial detection with new blood culture technology may improve detection of S. aureus in patients with SAB. We performed a 24-month retrospective study of hospitalized adults with SAB and an infectious diseases consult comparing two time periods pre- (January to December 2018) and postimplementation (January to December 2019) in which the VersaTREK and BacT/Alert Virtuo blood culture systems were used, respectively. Measurements included SAB duration, time to positivity, source of bacteremia, antimicrobial therapy, and mortality. A total of 416 episodes of SAB occurred during the study period: 176 (42%) pre- and 240 (58%) postimplementation. Patients in both periods had similar clinical characteristics; however, patients in the postimplementation period were more likely to have intermediate (3 to 6 days; 23% versus 40%;

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BacteremiaStaphylococcal InfectionsAdultAnti-Bacterial AgentsBlood CultureCulture MediaHumansRetrospective StudiesStaphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsCulture Mediabacteremiablood cultureS. aureusstaphylococcal infectionstreatment outcome

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PMID35291804
PMCPMC9020342
OpenAlexW4220842015

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