This test could be used, for example, for directly testing
1) bacteria obtained from antibiograms of blood culture
or 2) bacterial colonies grown on culture media before antimicrobial
drug susceptibility testing (Figure 2). Further
studies will evaluate its clinical value for antimicrobial
drug stewardship on bacteria isolated directly from clinical
samples (Figure 2). When the Carba NP test is used for that
purpose, we expect that the time to detect carbapenemase
producers will decrease by at least 24 hours (Figure 2).