Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of pathogens isolated from blood culture: a performance comparison of Accelerate Pheno (TM) and VITEK (R) 2 systems with the broth microdilution method

摘要

Objectives: To compare the performance of the Accelerate Pheno (TM) system with that of the conventional phenotypic VITEK (R) 2 system for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of bacterial pathogens from positive blood culture (PBC) samples, based on the reference broth microdilution (BMD) method.