diagnostics
Editor's Pick SusceptibilityUtility of Urine Cultures in Predicting Blood Culture Susceptibilities in Patients with Bacteremic Urinary Tract InfectionIn a review of 428 patients with bacteremic urinary tract infections, urine culture susceptibility results accurately predicted blood culture results when the same organism was isolated from both cultures. Early targeted therapy using urine culture results can potentially reduce broad-spectrum antibiotic exposure and its associated adverse effects and the length of hospitalization.
- SusceptibilityValidating a 14-Drug Microtiter Plate Containing Bedaquiline and Delamanid for Large-Scale Research Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The UKMYC5 plate is a 96-well microtiter plate designed by the CRyPTIC Consortium (Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis: an International Consortium) to enable the measurement of MICs of 14 different antituberculosis (anti-TB) compounds for >30,000 clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Unlike the MYCOTB plate, on which the UKMYC5 plate is...