Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing using the AST-POCT
The MBS AST-POCT analyses were carried out not later than 48 hours from collection, on frozen aliquots of urine samples. This allowed to perform analyses only on patients confirmed as positive by the hospital laboratory after urine culture, and consequently undergoing antibiotic susceptibility analysis, and not on every patient received at the hospital. Analyses were performed as previously described.