Optimizing Time to Identifying Growth from Short Incubation Cultures Using WASPLab
INTRODUCTION
– Mortality due to sepsis is high with delays in diagnosis and delays in initiation of appropriate Rx linked to poor outcomes
– MALDI-TOF MS is useful to identify blood culture (BC) short-incubation culture isolates thereby improving identification turn-around-times (TAT) to <12 hours for most isolates
-WASPLab encompasses an integrated model of automated processing and smart incubation involving high-resolution imagine
– WASPLab combined with VITEK MS (bioMerieux) has the potential to further improve BC ID TAT
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Date
April 21, 2018
Conference or Journal
Poster Presented at the 2018 CACCMID Meeting in Vancouver, Canada
Author(s)
Barker Kevin R
Melissa Kissoon
Michael McConnell
Barbara M Willey
Pauline Lo
Tony Mazzulli
Susan M Poutanen