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Clinical utility of direct disk diffusion testing in guiding antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bacteremia.
Edwin Kwan-Yeung Chiu, Ting-Fung Ma, King-Pui Florence Chan, Xin Li, Kelvin Hei-Yeung Chiu, Simon Yung-Chun So, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Pak-Leung Ho
Published: 202510.1016/j.ijid.2025.108127
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Conventional antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) for bloodstream infections requires -48 hours, often delaying optimal therapy. We investigated the clinical impact of implementing direct disk diffusion testing (dDDT) for Gram-negative…
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