Speaker:

Rebekah Dumm, PhD, D(ABMM)

Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology

Washington University School of Medicine

Medical Director, Bacteriology, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Molecular Syndromic Infectious Disease Diagnostics

Barnes Jewish Hospital

Objectives:

1. Define the targets and technology of currently available blood culture pathogen identification molecular panels
2. Review workflow benefits to the laboratory of implementing BCID panels
3. Discuss the clinical and antimicrobial stewardship benefits of rapid pathogen identification

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