@article{mbs:/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.075580-0, author = "Hazelton, Briony and Thomas, Lee C. and Olma, Thomas and Kok, Jen and O’Sullivan, Matthew and Chen, Sharon C.-A. and Iredell, Jonathan R.", title = "Rapid and accurate direct antibiotic susceptibility testing of blood culture broths using MALDI Sepsityper combined with the BD Phoenix automated system", journal= "Journal of Medical Microbiology", year = "2014", volume = "63", number = "12", pages = "1590-1594", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.075580-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.075580-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1473-5644", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Antibiotic susceptibility testing with the BD Phoenix system on bacterial cell pellets generated from blood culture broths using the Bruker MALDI Sepsityper kit was evaluated. Seventy-six Gram-negative isolates, including 12 with defined multi-resistant phenotypes, had antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) performed by Phoenix on the cell pellet in parallel with conventional methods. In total, 1414/1444 (97.9 %) of susceptibility tests were concordant, with only 1 (0.07 %) very major error. This novel method has the potential to reduce the turnaround time for AST results by up to a day for Gram-negative bacteraemias.", }