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97. Assessment of the accuracy of direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing from positive blood cultures in pediatric patients and its utility as an antimicrobial stewardship tool

BACKGROUND: Hospitalized pediatric patients with bacteremia receive broad-spectrum antibiotics while organism identification and antibiotic susceptibilities are pending. Direct susceptibility testing (DST) using unstandardized Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion provides early results before standardized (fi...

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Autores principales: Savage, Timothy, Rao, Shun, Joerger, Jill, Ozonoff, Al, McAdam, Alexander, Sandora, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776278/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.142