Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of pathogens isolated from blood culture: a performance comparison of Accelerate Pheno™ and VITEK® 2 systems with the broth microdilution method

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Objectives: To compare the performance of the Accelerate Pheno™ system with that of the conventional phenotypic VITEK® 2 system for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of bacterial pathogens from positive blood culture (PBC) samples, based on the reference broth microdilution (BMD) method. Methods: Prospectively collected PBCs that represented patient-unique bloodstream infection episodes were...

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