Impact of rapid identification of positive blood cultures using the Verigene system on antibiotic prescriptions: A prospective study of community-onset bacteremia in a tertiary hospital in Japan

• Kayoko Hayakawa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: khayakawa@hosp.ncgm.go.jp

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5480-4405

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• Kazuhisa Mezaki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masao Kobayakawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kei Yamamoto,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshikazu Mutoh,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Motoyuki Tsuboi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takehiro Hasimoto,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Maki Nagamatsu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Satoshi Kutsuna,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nozomi Takeshita,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuichi Katanami,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masahiro Ishikane,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Global infectious diseases, Department of Infection and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan

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• Norio Ohmagari

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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