Assessment of a rapid diagnostic test to exclude bacteraemia and effect on clinical decision-making for antimicrobial therapy

Unnecessary antimicrobial treatment promotes the emergence of resistance. Early confirmation that a blood culture is negative could shorten antibiotic courses. The Cognitor Minus test, performed on blood culture samples after 12 hours incubation has a negative predictive value (NPV) of 99.5%. The ai...

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Autores principales: Yui, Samuel, Bercades, Georgia, Muzslay, Monika, Blackburn, Emma, Ali, Shanom, Smyth, Deborah, Macklin, Alison, Ryu, Jung Hyun, Bassett, Paul, MacCallum, Niall, Brealey, David, Wilson, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32080319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60072-9

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