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The Impact of a Rapid Blood Culture Identification System on a Pediatric Institution, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Xtalks

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Pediatric blood cultures present unique problems such as fastidious organisms, antimicrobial treatment and small specimen volumes.


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Although automated blood systems can save time, subcultures are required for growth of the organism, specific biochemical testing, assays for the identification of potential pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Pediatric blood cultures present unique problems such as fastidious organisms, antimicrobial treatment and small specimen volumes. Furthermore, contamination of blood cultures by skin microbiota such as coagulase-negative Staphylococci may be problematic in specific populations such as immunocompromised patients where determining true pathogens can be more difficult.

GenMark’s ePlex® System is a molecular amplification and identification system with three panels for the identification of organisms causing bloodstream infections and certain associated antibiotic resistance genes. To aid in reducing the time to identification of key pathogens, resistances and possible contaminants, the ePlex® Blood Culture Identification (BCID) Panels are fully automated sample-to-answer PCR-based assays designed to identify gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, fungi and bacterial resistance genes in approximately 90 minutes from positive blood culture.

Join the featured speaker to explore how a rapid blood culture identification system can be utilized in a pediatric population while navigating best practices for integration of the system into a hospital, laboratory and stewardship network.

Join Joel E. Mortensen, PhD, Director of the Diagnostic Infectious Diseases Testing Laboratories, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, for the live webinar on Friday, September 23, 2022, at 12pm EDT (9am PDT).

For more information, or to register for this event, visit The Impact of a Rapid Blood Culture Identification System on a Pediatric Institution.

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