Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing on positive blood cultures through an innovative light scattering technology: performances and turnaround time evaluation

Table 1 Selected antibiotics for result performance analysis following MALDI-TOF MS identification result

		MALDI-TOF MS identification result
Customized panels	Tested antibiotics	Enterobacteriaceae	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Staphylococcus aureus	Coagulase-negative Staphylococci	Enterococci
Gram-negative bacilli	cefuroxime/EU^a	X
	ceftazidime EB/EU	X
	piperacillin-tazobactam EB/EU	X
	ceftazidime Pseudomonas/EU		X
	ciprofloxacin/EU	X	X
Gram-positive cocci	cefoxitin S. aureus/EU			X
	cefoxitin CNS/EU				X
	ampicillin Enterococci/EU					X

CNS coagulase-negative Staphylococci, EB Enterobacteriaceae, EU EUCAST lyophilized antibiotics, MALDI-TOF MS matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
^aCefuroxime results were not taken into account for AmpC-producing Enterobacteriaceae

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