These publications may include information from one or more organism/antimicrobial combinations that are research use only and not for use in diagnostic procedures. Certain uses of devices included in these publications may not have been IVD-approved or cleared by regulatory bodies.
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Poster
Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Directly From Positive Blood Cultures: A Pilot Study on the ASTar System - Quest - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Performance of a System for Direct Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility from Blood Culture - PSU - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Evaluation of the ASTar® system for Rapid Susceptibility Testing Directly from Positive Blood Cultures from Oncology Patients with Bloodstream Infections - MSKCC - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Evaluation of a Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing System from Positive Blood Cultures for Accuracy and Potential Clinical Impact - GWU - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Advancing Antimicrobial Therapy Evaluating the ASTar Q-linea System for Rapid AST in Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections - BSW - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Rapid AST enables treatment optimization over 1.3 days faster for BSI patients The LIFETIMES study - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Controlled inoculum functionality of an automated rapid AST system leads to consistent MIC determination - ASM 2025
2025
Poster
Potential impact of rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing on antimicrobial therapy in patients with Gram-negative bloodstream infections - MAD-ID 2025
2025
Poster
Rapid AST enables treatment optimisation over 32 h earlier than standard of care for BSI patients: interim results of the LIFETIMES study - ESCMID Global 2025
2025
Poster
Rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing from patient blood cultures with growth of Streptococci or other Gram-positive bacteria - ESCMID Global 2025
2025
Poster
Controlled inoculum functionality of an automated rapid AST system leads to consistent MIC determination - ESCMID Global 2025
2025
Poster
Evaluation and potential clinical impact of a rapid AST method direct from Gram-negative blood cultures - SWACM 2024
2024
Poster
Rapid AST results for gram-negative bacteremia and the time to effective and optimal antimicrobial therapy, J. Boelens et al., Ghent University Hospital. - ESICM 2024.
2024
Poster
Performance evaluation of Meropenem-Vaborbactam on clinical isolates in a fully automated rapid AST system - ESCMID Global 2024.
2024
White Paper
The Health and Economic Impact of Rapid AST in the Management of Bloodstream Infections
2024
Brochure
ASTar - Designed to save lifetimes
2024
Application Note
Advantages of the ASTar System
2024
Poster
The LIFETIMES Study – Interim Results from a Health and Economic Evaluation of a Rapid Phenotypic AST System - ASM Microbe 2024
2024
Poster
Rapid AST expedites antimicrobial therapy optimisation in BSI patients – clinical cases from the LIFETIMES HEOR study - ESCMID Global 2024
2024
Poster
Interim results of a clinical and economic evaluation of a rapid AST system – the LIFETIMES study - ESCMID Global 2024
2024
Poster
A new assay for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bloodstream infection-causing gram-negative bacteria - ASM 2023
2023
Poster
Performance Evaluation for Piperacillin/Tazobactam in ESBL-Producing E. coli Strains (OXA-1 and TEM-1) in an Automated Rapid AST System Using the New FDA Breakpoints - ASM 2023
2023
Poster
Fully Automated Phenotypic Resistance Reporting in 3 Hours, Directly from a Positive Blood Culture - ECCMID 2021
2021
Application Note
A workflow for early and accurate treatment of sepsis
2020
Poster
Accurate inoculum preparation for AST from various samples - ASM 2019
2019
Poster
Rapid phenotypic AST direct from different clinical specimens as well as isolates on the same automated system - ECCMID 2019
2019
Poster
Automated inoculum preparation for AST from crude samples - ECCMID 2019
2019
Poster
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test System Delivering Phenotypic MICs in Hours from Positive Blood Cultures for Fastidious- and Non-Fastidious Pathogens - ASM 2018
2018
Poster
Opportunity for very rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing of clinical specimens using the novel ASTar platform - ASM 2018
2018
Poster
MALDI-TOF MS Identification and Phenotypic AST Delivering True MICs in Hours, Directly from Clinical Positive Blood Cultures - ASM 2018
2018
Poster
Poster - Mass spectrometry pathogen identification and phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing delivering MICs in hours, directly from clinical positive blood cultures - ECCMID 2018
2018
White Paper
The Importance of Controlled Inoculum
2024
Poster
Performance of a rapid phenotypic AST System for susceptibility testing of Gram-negative bacteraemia directly from positive blood culture bottles - ECCMID 2022.
2022
Poster
Using wasted time: How a portable culture device can reduce the impact of transportation times in antimicrobial susceptibility testing - ECCMID 2022
2022
Poster
Rapid phenotypic AST System performance for Gram-negative bacteraemia susceptibility testing directly from positive blood culture bottles - ASM 2022
2022
Poster
Using wasted time: How a portable culture device can reduce the impact of transportation times in antimicrobial susceptibility testing - ASM 2022
2022
Presentations & webinars
RECORDED WEBINAR
Transforming Bacteremia Care with Rapid AST: Real-World Insights from a Prestigious Reference Lab
Originally broadcasted on July 23, 2025
Speakers:
Dr. Vittal Prakash Ponraj, Ph.D., SM(ASCP)CM
Technical Director of Microbiology, Quest Diagnostics, USA
Recorded presentation from a workshop held at the AMCLI Congress, March 2024 Clinical Impact of rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing on positive blood cultures from 200 patients with bacteremia: A prospective trial (English subtitles) Prof. Alexia Verroken, MD, PhD
Recorded presentation from a workshop held at the AMCLI Congress, March 2024 LIFETIMES – Risultati preliminari di uno studio multcentrico di Health Economics (English subtitles) Prof. Maurizio Sanguinetti
Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
