Figure 1.

Potential clinical application of the Verigene test and its integration with standard blood culture assay for the management of febrile neutropenia in hematologic patients. The median time from blood sample collection to the blood culture positivity is 18 hours. In our organization, the Verigene test yielded results within a median of 2 hours from blood culture positivity. This represented a gain of a median of 20 hours, as compared to the standard blood cultures with antibiotic susceptibility, which required a median of 22 hours from blood culture positivity.