PCL’s Wound Panel is focused on serving:
- Infectious Disease Practitioners
- Geriatric, Primary Care & Family Physicians
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
Wound Panel Benefits
- Identification of the pathogens as well as the detection of antibiotic resistance.
- Able to detect organisms that a standard culture would not.
- Rapidly determines whether bacterial infection is likely to respond to a specific antibiotic.
Wound Statistics
- In the United States, 3% of the population >65 years of age have open wounds.
- Antimicrobial use is a primary driver of antibiotic resistance. The CDC estimates that the use of 50% of antibiotics administered in hospitals is inappropriate or unnecessary.
The Wound Panel detects the following:
- BACTERIAL
- Acinetobacter baumannii
- Actinobaculum schaalii
- Aerococcus urinae
- Alloscardovia Omnicolens
- Citrobacter freundii
- Citrobacter koseri
- Coagulase Negative Staph
- Corynebacterium riegelii
- Enterobacter aerogenes
- Enterobacter cloacae
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Enterococcus faecium
- Escherichia coli
- Klebsiella oxytoca
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Morganella morganii
- Mycoplasma hominis
- Pantoea agglomerans
- Proteus mirabilis
- Proteus vulgaris
- Providencia stuartii
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Serratia marcescens
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptococcus agalactiae
- Ureaplasma urealyticum
- Viridans Group Strep
- FUNGAL
- Candida albicans
- Candida auras
- Candida glabrata
- Candida parapsilosis
- ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE MARKERS
- ampC
- DHA
- IMP-1 group, IMP-16, IMP-7
- OXA-23, 72, 40, blaOXA-48
- VIM
- CTX-M group 1, 2, 9, 8/25
- OXA-1, GES, PER-1, PER-2
- PER-1, PER-2
- TEM
- mecA
- QnrA, QnrS, Qnr B
- vanA1, vanA2, vanB
- dfrA5, dfrA1
- Sul1, Sul2
- nfsA
- FOX
- ACC
- MOX/CMY
- BIL/LAT/CMY
- SHV
- VEB
- KPC
Results will become available online within 24 to 48 hours of specimen receipt followed by hard copy in the mail and fax if requested.
