Validation of Automated Bacterial Suspension Preparation by Colibri^® and Plate Streaking by WASP^® for Antibiotic Disk Diffusion Susceptibility Testing.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

One of the most crucial responsibilities of clinical microbiology laboratories involves conducting precise and fast antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) on bacterial isolates, necessary to guide antibiotic therapy. Standardized disk diffusion, a manual AST method, consumes a significant amount of time and is error-prone. Total laboratory automation in microbiology should enable a lower workload, high traceability, and standardization in AST. Therefore, we examined the concordance at the categorical level between the manual reference method and a new automated approach for bacterial suspension preparation and plate streaking in AST.

Methods

In this study, we validated the automated bacterial suspension preparation by Colibri^® and plate s

SUBMITTER: Vanstokstraeten R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12729282 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature