Outcomes of implementation of the FilmArray meningoencephalitis panel in a tertiary hospital between 2017 and 2020.BACKGROUND
 The BioFire® FilmArray® Meningoencephalitis (ME) allows testing of 14 target pathogens using only 0.2mls of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).  Data for CSF samples tested using the FilmArray ME panel from October 2017 to October 2020 were analysed.  Of those, 543 CSF samples from 512 individual patients were tested using the FilmArray ME panel.  In our hands, implementation of the FilmArray ME panel was relatively straightforward. 
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