AUTHOR=Banerjee Ritu , Humphries Romney 

TITLE=Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methods for Blood Cultures and Their Clinical Impact

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.635831

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2021.635831

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=<p>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.</p>