Diagnostic Value of Endotracheal Aspirates Sonication on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Microbiologic Diagnosis.
Laia Fernández-BaratAna MotosOtávio Tavares RanzaniGianluigi Li BassiElisabet Aguilera XiolTarek SenussiChiara TraviersoChiara ChiurazziFrancesco IdoneLaura MuñozJordi VilaMiquel FerrerPaolo PelosiFrancesco BlasiMassimo AntonelliAntoni TorresPublished in: Microorganisms (2017)
The use of sonication in ETA respiratory samples needs to be clinically validated since sonication could potentially improve pathogen detection before standard, rapid, or high throughput diagnostic methods used in routine microbial diagnostics.