Performance evaluation of the Mini-Lab, an all-in-one clinical bacteriology laboratory adapted to low-resource settings, in a district hospital in Central African Republic: A prospective descriptive study.

Objectives: Médecins sans Frontières designed an all-in-one microbiology laboratory (the "Mini-Lab") to improve bacterial infections diagnosis in low-resource settings by nonexpert laboratory staff. We assessed the diagnostic performance of the Mini-Lab in its final intended use.

Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study at a District Hospital in Central African Republic.

Affordable blood culture systems from China: in vitro evaluation for use in resource-limited settings.

Background: Bloodstream infections (BSI) pose a significant threat due to high mortality rates and the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In 2019, an estimated 4.95 million deaths were linked to bacterial AMR.

Evaluation of InTray Cassettes Directly from Blood Cultures for the Diagnosis of Sepsis in Clinical Bacteriology Laboratories as an Alternative to Classic Culture Media.

Culture media is fundamental in clinical bacteriology for the detection and isolation of bacterial pathogens. However, in-house media preparation could be challenging in low-resource settings. InTray cassettes (Biomed Diagnostics) could be a valid alternative as they are compact, ready-to-use media preparations.