Method - Rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles
EUCAST has validated a method for direct plating of disk diffusion MH and MHF agar plates from positive blood culture bottles. The plates are immediately incubated and read after 4, 6, 8 or 16-20 hours (but not beyond) of incubation.
Work is ongoing to add more species and more antibiotics.
For methodology, see the document EUCAST Rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles (updated 25 March, 2024)
For hints on how to implement the rapid AST in the laboratory, see Implementation of RAST (updated 12 April, 2022).
Archived versions:
EUCAST Rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles (25 April 2023 - 25 March 2024)
EUCAST rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles (12 April 2022 - 25 April, 2023)
EUCAST rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles (31 December 2021 - 12 April, 2022)
EUCAST rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles (2 May 2019 - 31 December, 2021
EUCAST rapid AST directly from positive blood culture bottles (valid until 2 May, 2019)
