Clinical Utility of Blood Culture Identification 2 Panel in Flagged Blood Culture Samples from the Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: The availability of rapid diagnostic platforms for positive blood cultures has accelerated the speed at which the clinical microbiology laboratory can identify the causative organism and facilitate early appropriate antimicrobial therapy. There is a paucity of data regarding the clinical utility of the blood culture identification 2 (BCID2) panel test and its correlation with phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) in flagged blood culture bottles from intensive care units (ICUs) in countries such as India, which have high rates of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB).

Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study in a tertiary care ICU on 200 patients above 18 years of age in whom a BCID2 test was ordered when blood cultures flagged positive.

"Nurse-The Archer" Fighting Against the Hidden Enemy.

Background And Aim: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global threat spreading like a wildfire and taking the world by its storm. It has challenged the healthcare delivery systems and disrupted them in a way no one ever imagined before. We at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India received many patients in the COVID critical care unit (CCU) and found a gradual lack of bundle care compliance resulting in an upsurge of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) amid the patients.

Clinical Profile of Non-neutropenic Patients with Invasive Candidiasis: A Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Care Center.

Invasive candidiasis (IC) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). In this study, we aim to analyze the clinical profile, species distribution, and susceptibility pattern of patients with IC. Case records of non-neutropenic patients ≥18 years of age with IC between January 2016 and June 2019 at a tertiary care referral hospital were analyzed.

A decade of change in susceptibility patterns of Gram-negative blood culture isolates: a single center study.

Background: Gram-negative bacteremia is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in Indian hospitals. We hereby describe changing trends in Gram-negative isolates from blood cultures from a single center over a ten-year period.

Methods: Antibiotic susceptibility patterns were collected for a total of 4128 non-repetitive blood culture isolates from 2003 to 2013.