Same Day Identification and Full Panel Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria from Positive Blood Culture Bottles Made Possible by a Combined Lysis-Filtration Method with MALDI-TOF VITEK Mass Spectrometry and the VITEK2 System

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Alexandra Machen,

Affiliation Department of Pathology and laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Tim Drake,

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Grady Health System, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Yun F. (Wayne) Wang

* E-mail: yfwang@emory.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Grady Health System, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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