Banerjee Ritu, Humphries Romney
Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Mar 10;8:635831. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.635831. eCollection 2021.
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of bacteria isolated in blood cultures is critical for optimal management of patients with sepsis. This review describes new and emerging phenotypic and genotypic AST methods and summarizes the evidence that implementation of these methods can impact clinical outcomes of patients with bloodstream infections.
对血培养中分离出的细菌进行抗菌药物敏感性测试(AST)对于脓毒症患者的优化管理至关重要。本综述描述了新出现的表型和基因型AST方法,并总结了实施这些方法可影响血流感染患者临床结局的证据。