Figure 2.
Hours from blood culture collection until receipt of active therapy in patients whose positive blood culture broths underwent blaKPC PCR testing (blaKPC PCR) and those whose blood culture broths did not undergo blaKPC PCR testing (non-PCR). Results are displayed for (A) all CRE bacteremia, (B) KPC-producing CRE bacteremia, and (C) non–KPC-producing CRE bacteremia. Boxes represent 25th and 75th percentiles, and the vertical line in the box represents the median. The range is represented by the whiskers. P values compare blaKPC PCR patients with non-PCR patients. Only data from the 107 patients who received active therapy are included. Abbreviations: CRE, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales; KPC, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase; PCR, polymerase chain reaction.