A two-hour procedure for determining the susceptibility of enterococci and staphylococci to antibiotics by a colourimetric method.

Introduction: Rapid determination of the antibiotic susceptibility test in bacteria remains a challenge for Clinical Microbiology laboratories.

Methods: An improvement in the colorimetric antimicrobial susceptibility testing performed with resazurin in enterococci and staphylococci has been carried out. The design of method was performed using two collection strains, which have a known susceptibility.

A two-hour antibiotic susceptibility test by ATP-bioluminescence.

The antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) in Clinical Microbiology laboratories is still time-consuming, and most procedures take 24h to yield results. In this study, a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test using ATP-bioluminescence has been developed. The design of method was performed using five ATCC collection strains of known susceptibility.

New procedure for rapid identification of microorganisms causing urinary tract infection from urine samples by mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF).

Introduction: Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry is widely established as a technique in clinical microbiology laboratories for the identification of microorganisms. Using this technique, it is also possible to obtain the identification of microorganisms from untreated urine samples.

Methods: In this study, a differential centrifugation protocol and a criterion for validation of the results in order to achieve microbial identification from untreated urine samples are proposed.