Rapid identification of microorganisms from sterile body fluids by use of FilmArray

Osman Altun; Mohammed Almuhayawi; Måns Ullberg; Volkan Özenci

doi:10.1128/JCM.03434-14

Rapid identification of microorganisms from sterile body fluids by use of FilmArray

J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Feb;53(2):710-2. doi: 10.1128/JCM.03434-14. Epub 2014 Dec 17.

Authors

Osman Altun¹, Mohammed Almuhayawi², Måns Ullberg¹, Volkan Özenci³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Microbiology, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden volkan.ozenci@karolinska.se.

Abstract

We evaluated the clinical performance of the FilmArray blood culture identification (BCID) panel in the identification of microorganisms from positive blood culture bottles inoculated with sterile body fluids. All organisms included in the FA BCID panel were accurately identified in 84/84 (100%) and 18/24 (75%) samples with mono- and polymicrobial growth, respectively.

Publication types

Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
Body Fluids / microbiology*
Candidiasis / diagnosis*
Humans
Microbiological Techniques / methods*
Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / methods*
Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods
Sensitivity and Specificity
Time Factors