Clinical utility of the BioFire FilmArray Blood Culture Identification panel in the adjustment of empiric antimicrobial therapy in the critically ill septic patient

• Roxanne Rule ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roxyrule@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Tshwane Academic Division, National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5549-2987

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• Fathima Paruk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Critical Care, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Critical Care, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Piet Becker,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Matthew Neuhoff,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Julian Chausse,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Mohamed Said

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Tshwane Academic Division, National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria, South Africa

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