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Article

The Impact of a Positive Biofire® FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel Result on Clinical Management and Outcomes

by
David Carmon
1,†,
Hanan Rohana
1,2,†,
Maya Azrad
1,2 and
Avi Peretz
1,2,*
1
Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed 1311502, Israel
2
The Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Tzafon Medical Center, Poriya, Tiberias 1528001, Israel
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Diagnostics 2023, 13(6), 1094; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13061094
Submission received: 7 February 2023 / Revised: 2 March 2023 / Accepted: 10 March 2023 / Published: 14 March 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease)
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Abstract

The gold standard diagnostic method for gastrointestinal infections is stool culture, which has limited sensitivity and long turnaround time. Infection diagnosis recently shifted to syndrome-based panel assays. This study employed the FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel, which detects 22 pathogens simultaneously, to investigate gastrointestinal infection and pathogen distribution in 91 stool samples of patients hospitalized at the Tzafon Medical Center, Israel, during 2020, and to compare the clinical and demographic data of negative vs. positive samples. Among the 61 positive samples (67%), the most common pathogen was Campylobacter (34.4%). Positive test results were associated with a slightly younger patient age (p = 0.012), significantly higher post-diagnosis use of antibiotics (63.9% vs. 36.7%; p = 0.014), and shorter length of stay and time to discharge (p = 0.035, p = 0.003, respectively) than negative test results. To conclude, the FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel enabled the early identification of causative infectious agents and enhanced clinical management and outcomes.
Keywords: gastrointestinal infections; FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel; pathogen distribution; positive result; clinical management and outcomes gastrointestinal infections; FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel; pathogen distribution; positive result; clinical management and outcomes

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Carmon, D.; Rohana, H.; Azrad, M.; Peretz, A. The Impact of a Positive Biofire® FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel Result on Clinical Management and Outcomes. Diagnostics 2023, 13, 1094. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13061094

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Carmon D, Rohana H, Azrad M, Peretz A. The Impact of a Positive Biofire® FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel Result on Clinical Management and Outcomes. Diagnostics. 2023; 13(6):1094. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13061094

Chicago/Turabian Style

Carmon, David, Hanan Rohana, Maya Azrad, and Avi Peretz. 2023. "The Impact of a Positive Biofire® FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel Result on Clinical Management and Outcomes" Diagnostics 13, no. 6: 1094. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13061094

APA Style

Carmon, D., Rohana, H., Azrad, M., & Peretz, A. (2023). The Impact of a Positive Biofire® FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel Result on Clinical Management and Outcomes. Diagnostics, 13(6), 1094. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13061094

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