A Rapid ATP Bioluminescence-based Test for Detecting Levofloxacin Resistance Starting from Positive Blood Culture Bottles
Open Access
- 2 October 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Scientific Reports
- Vol. 9 (1) , 1-9
Abstract
Administering appropriate antimicrobial therapy as early as possible is important for rescuing bacteremic patients. Therefore, rapid antimicrobial susceptibility tests in positive blood culture specimens have been diligently sought. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) bioluminescence-based methods have been used for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility tests. However, blood culture specimens have not been examined in many studies, possibly due to abundant intracellular ATP in blood corpuscles resulting in false-susceptible results. In this study, we developed a rapid ATP bioluminescence-based method for detecting antibiotic resistance starting from positive blood culture. To minimize background ATP originating from blood corpuscles, specimens were centrifuged and the supernatant diluted with broth, and an ATP-eliminating reagent was then added to the bacterial suspension at the beginning of incubation. This newly devised procedure reduced the background ATP by more than five orders of magnitude. In a pilot study using levofloxacin, no false-susceptible results were observed in 15 clinical specimens. Furthermore, the results indicated that the rapid method provided additional information about bacterial activities with high resolution, in contrast to the less-thorough findings with the conventional turbidity method. Therefore, our approach will contribute to the treatment of infectious diseases as a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test.Keywords
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