Educational Case: Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Utilization of Rapid Diagnostics for Bloodstream Pathogen Identification and Prediction of Antimicrobial Susceptibility

Carlos A Castrodad-Rodríguez; Erika P Orner; Wendy A Szymczak

doi:10.1177/23742895211015343

Educational Case: Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Utilization of Rapid Diagnostics for Bloodstream Pathogen Identification and Prediction of Antimicrobial Susceptibility

Acad Pathol. 2021 May 12:8:23742895211015343. doi: 10.1177/23742895211015343. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Carlos A Castrodad-Rodríguez¹, Erika P Orner¹, Wendy A Szymczak¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040. ¹.

Keywords: antimicrobials; diagnostic medicine; mass spectrometry; microbiology; molecular testing; pathology competencies; susceptibility.