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A tiny patient, but a pretty serious AST result
Sharing an interesting finding from our lab today.
The patient was just 2 days old. Culture grew Klebsiella pneumoniae, with resistance to multiple antibiotics on AST.
What caught my attention was the ceftazidime–avibactam MIC: 4 µg/mL, interpreted as susceptible in our report.
Looking at an MIC strip on a plate is routine laboratory work—but when you remember that the result belongs to a newborn only two days into life, it suddenly feels very different.
One of those cases that reminds you there is an actual patient behind every plate we read.
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u/Beneficial_Tear_3320 — 16 hours ago