New Bacteriology Line paper

Evaluation of an automated rapid urine culture method for urinary tract infection: Comparison with the gold standard conventional culture method ♦ DOI ♦   Conducted in India and published in the Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology (Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists) In this study, 1220 urine samples were analyzed with HB&L Uroquattro in comparison with…

First Publications on I-dOne

First Publications on I-dOne ?️ 26 SEPTEMBER Rapid bacterial identification from positive blood cultures by infrared spectroscopy using short-term incubation  74th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology e.V. (DGHM) 5–7 September 2022 Berlin.  “Off-label” trial study (not present in the current intended use) conducted by the team of Prof Wendel of the…

ESBL Publication: P. Pérez-Palacios et al., Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2019

Assessment of a semi-automated enrichment system (UroquattroHB&L) for detection of faecal carriers of ESBL-/AmpC-producing Enterobacterales P. Pérez-Palacios et al., Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2019 DOI:10.1016/j.eimc.2019.11.001 The aim of this study was to compare the semi-automatic Uroquattro HB&L “ESBL/AmpC Screening” (Alifax®) system with the routine culture on selective media to detect ESBL/AmpC-producing microorganisms (3CGRE). A total…

New RAP SEPSIS publication from Saint-Luc University Hospital of Brussels

Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing on positive blood cultures through an innovative light scattering technology: performances and turnaround time evaluation BMC Infectious Diseases https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4623-x Lidvine Boland†, Corentin Streel†, Hélène De Wolf, Hector Rodriguez and Alexia Verroken Background: A bacteremia diagnosis with speeded-up identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is mandatory to adjust empirical broad-spectrum antibiotherapy and…