Novel electronic biosensor for automated inoculum preparation to accelerate antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Autor: Suzanne Putney, Andrew H. Theiss, Nitin K. Rajan, Eszter Deak, Creighton Buie, Yvonne Ngo, Hima Shah, Victoria Yuan, Elizabeth Botbol-Ponte, Adrian Hoyos-Urias, Oren Knopfmacher, Catherine A. Hogan, Niaz Banaei, Meike S. Herget
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90830-2
Popis: Abstract A key predictor of morbidity and mortality for patients with a bloodstream infection is time to appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Accelerating antimicrobial susceptibility testing from positive blood cultures is therefore key to improving patient outcomes, yet traditional laboratory approaches can require 2–4 days for actionable results. The eQUANT—a novel instrument utilizing electrical biosensors—produces a standardized inoculum equivalent to a 0.5 McFarland directly from positive blood cultures. This proof-of-concept study demonstrates that eQUANT inocula prepared from clinically significant species of Enterobacterales were comparable to 0.5 McF inocula generated from bacterial colonies in both CFU/ml concentration and performance in antimicrobial susceptibility testing, with ≥ 95% essential and categorical agreement for VITEK2 and disk diffusion. The eQUANT, combined with a rapid, direct from positive blood culture identification technique, can allow the clinical laboratory to begin antimicrobial susceptibility testing using a standardized inoculum approximately 2–3 h after a blood culture flags positive. This has the potential to improve clinical practice by accelerating conventional antimicrobial susceptibility testing and the resulting targeted antibiotic therapy.
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