Stewardship Approach for Optimizing Antimicrobial Therapy through Use of a Rapid Microarray Assay on Blood Cultures Positive for Enterococcus Species

Enterococci are a major cause of bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients and have limited antimicrobial treatment options due to their many resistance mechanisms. Molecular technologies have significantly shortened the time to enterococcal isolate identification compared with conventional methods. We evaluated the impact of rapid organism identification and resistance detection with the Verigene Gram-positive blood culture microarray...