Fast, robust, and affordable antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is required, as roughly
50% of antibiotic treatments are started with wrong antibiotics and without a proper …

Emerging antibiotic resistant bacteria constitute one of the biggest threats to public health.
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is highly promising for detecting such bacteria …

During bloodstream infections, rapid adaptation of empirical treatment according to the
microorganism identified is essential to decrease mortality. The aim of the present study was …

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) and subsequent organ dysfunction (sepsis and septic shock)
are conditions that rank among the top reasons for human mortality and have a great impact …

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are triggered by the existence of pathogens in blood and are
considered a major health burden worldwide, especially when they result in sepsis and …

Klebsiella is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria known to be opportunistic pathogens that
may cause a variety of infections in humans. Highly drug-resistant Klebsiella species …

In order to further accelerate pathogen identification from positive blood cultures (BC),
various sample preparation protocols to identify bacteria with MALDI-TOF MS directly from …

Background The rapidly growing area of sequencing technologies, and more specifically
bacterial whole-genome sequencing, could offer applications in clinical microbiology …

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF
MS) is one of the most promising technologies for the identification of microbial pathogens …

Sepsis, a life-threatening condition with alarmingly high mortality rates, demands the
development of improved diagnostic methods to better understand and manage the disease …