Alifax Inside-Out Webinar: I-dOne, Elevating Lab Efficiency with Rapid Microbial Identification

Alifax Inside-Out Webinar: I-dOne, Elevating Lab Efficiency with Rapid Microbial Identification Date: 11 DECEMBER 2024 Time: 12.00 pm CET Duration: Approximately 40 min Platform: GoTo Webinar Language: English   Join us to an insightful Alifax Webinar featuring Professor Florin Horhat, Head of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Louis Țurcanu Emergency Hospital for Children in Timișoara, Romania, and…

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…

New RAP SEPSIS publication from St. George’s University of London

Evaluation of a new Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility system for Gram-negative and Gram-positive bloodstream infections: speed and accuracy of Alfred 60AST BMC Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1654-9 Vanesa Anton-Vazquez1,3* , Samuel Adjepong2, Cristina Suarez1 and Timothy Planche1,2,3   Background: Blood stream infections (BSIs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The time from taking blood cultures to obtain…

New RAP SEPSIS publication from University Hospitals Leuven – Belgium

Performance and potential clinical impact of Alfred60AST (Alifax®) for direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing on positive blood culture bottles European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03690-0 Bea Van den Poel1 & Philippe Meersseman2 & Yves Debaveye3 & Adrian Klak1 & Jan Verhaegen1,4 & Stefanie Desmet1,4 Abstract Rapid pathogen identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing…

New RAP SEPSIS publication from Marañón University Hospital of Madrid

Evaluation of the Alfred AST® system for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing directly from positive blood cultures European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Carlos Sánchez-Carrillo, Paula Pescador, Rosa Ricote, Julia Fuentes, Carmen Losada, Ana Candela, Emilia Cercenado Servicio de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Dr. Esquerdo 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain Abstract To…