%0 Journal Article %A Hazelton, Briony %A Thomas, Lee C. %A Olma, Thomas %A Kok, Jen %A O’Sullivan, Matthew %A Chen, Sharon C.-A. %A Iredell, Jonathan R. %T Rapid and accurate direct antibiotic susceptibility testing of blood culture broths using MALDI Sepsityper combined with the BD Phoenix automated system %D 2014 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 63 %N 12 %P 1590-1594 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.075580-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Antibiotic susceptibility testing with the BD Phoenix system on bacterial cell pellets generated from blood culture broths using the Bruker MALDI Sepsityper kit was evaluated. Seventy-six Gram-negative isolates, including 12 with defined multi-resistant phenotypes, had antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) performed by Phoenix on the cell pellet in parallel with conventional methods. In total, 1414/1444 (97.9 %) of susceptibility tests were concordant, with only 1 (0.07 %) very major error. This novel method has the potential to reduce the turnaround time for AST results by up to a day for Gram-negative bacteraemias. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.075580-0