Insights on antimicrobial stewardship in the microbiology laboratory: a review

The objective was to describe the latest perspectives and assignments for microbiology laboratories in Antimicrobial Stewardship programs within the multidisciplinary team of care to patients including schemes to optimize the use of antibiotics based on microbiological laboratory techniques Methods it conducted a review of narrative literature papers published in Pubmed database from May to September The search terms used were quot Antimicrobial Stewardship AND Clinical Microbiology quot being selected references from the documents found Results Antimicrobial Stewardship programs have emerged in recent decades in order to optimize antimicrobial therapy Microbiology laboratories have important duties to perform tests that support the selection and standardization of restricted antimicrobials in clinical protocols for infection by micro organisms resistant to multiple drugs Currently available tests are related to the identification quantification and determination of resistance patterns and antimicrobial susceptibility among them classical biochemical and microbiological tests rapid tests for diagnosis addition of serum procalcitonin So microbiology laboratories should integrate the various inter committees that promote the safe and rational use of antimicrobials We conclude that there is a lack of studies that evaluated effectively both clinical and financial