Rapid Identification of Pathogens in Positive Blood Culture of Patients with Sepsis: Review and Meta-Analysis of the Performance of the Sepsityper Kit

Sepsis is one of the leading causes of deaths, and rapid identification (ID) of blood stream infection is mandatory to perform adequate antibiotic therapy. The advent of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for the rapid ID of pathogens was a major breakthrough in microbiology. Recently, this method was comb...

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Main Authors: Nils G. Morgenthaler, Markus Kostrzewa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Microbiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/827416
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