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Implementation of short incubation MALDI-TOF MS identification from positive blood cultures in routine diagnostics and effects on empiric antimicrobial therapy

BACKGROUND: Results of blood culture (BC) diagnostics should be swiftly available to guide treatment of critically ill patients. Conventional BC diagnostics usually performs species identification of microorganisms from mature solid medium colonies. Species identification might be speed up by using...

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Autores principales: Köck, Robin, Wüllenweber, Jörg, Horn, Dagmar, Lanckohr, Christian, Becker, Karsten, Idelevich, Evgeny A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28101334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0173-4