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Blood Culture Identification C BLD ID

Synonyms

Allscripts (AEHR) Order Name

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Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM) Order Name

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EPIC Order Name

Blood Culture Identification

Clinical Info

Blood culture bottles are incubated for five days. First time positive bottles (within a seven day period) will have molecular blood culture identification performed by multiplex PCR. This multiplex PCR assay detects the following organisms and antibiotic resistance genes: Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex, Bacteroides fragilis, Enterobacterales (at the Order level, as well as the individual Enterobacterales species listed), Enterobacter cloacae complex, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella oxytoca, Klebsiella pneumoniae group, Proteus spp., Salmonella spp., Serratia marcescens, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Enterococcus faecalis, Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus (at the Genus level, as well as the individual Staphylococcus species listed), Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus lugdunensis, Streptococcus (at the Genus level, as well as the individual Streptococcus species listed), Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Candida albicans, Candida auris, Candida dubliniensis, Candida famata, Candida glabrata, Candida guilliermondii, Candida kefyr, Candida krusei, Candida lusitaniae, Candida parapsilosis, Candida tropicalis, Cryptococcus gattii, Cryptococcus neoformans, Fusarium, Rhodotorula, KPC, OXA-48-like, NDM, VIM, IMP, CTX-M, mecA/C, mecA/C + MREJ, and vanA/B.

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PDM

1962433

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