BacT/ALERT
Controlled comparison of the BacT/Alert and BACTEC 660/730 nonradiometric blood culture systems
... Although BacT/Alert and BACTEC bottles were found to be comparable for recovering microorganisms, BacT/Alert detected microbial growth in both aerobic and anaerobic bottles significantly[r] ...
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Direct Susceptibility Testing with Positive BacT/Alert Blood Cultures by Using MicroScan Overnight and Rapid Panels
... Kiehn et al. (6) found only 0.7% categorical discrepancies between MicroScan MIC panels inoculated directly and by standard methodology from nonautomated blood culture sys- tems. More recently, Pettigrew et al. (13) ...
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Comparison of the BacT/Alert FAN aerobic and the Difco ESP 80A aerobic bottles for pediatric blood cultures
... by BacT/Alert ...of BacT/Alert FAN to recover some organ- isms, especially staphylococci, from patients receiving antimi- crobial ...the BacT/Alert system in this study is ...
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Compendial USP, BacT/Alert Dual T, and Bactec FX for Detection of Product Sterility Testing Contaminants
... , BacT/Alert, and Bactec systems for the detection of 118 common cGMP environmental and biopharmaceutical contaminants and highlights important limitations of automated blood culture systems that must be ...
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Culturing periprosthetic tissue in BacT/Alert® Virtuo blood culture system leads to improved and faster detection of prosthetic joint infections
... types. BacT/ Alert FA Plus bottles inoculated with aerobic bacteria flagged positive for growth before 15 h ...the BacT/Alert FN Plus bottles inoculated with anaerobic bacteria, there was a ...
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Neutralization of Antimicrobial Substances in New BacT/Alert FA and FN Plus Blood Culture Bottles
... The present study design proved appropriate for pneumo- cocci, since growth of all strains was detected in aerobic and an- aerobic new BacT/Alert BC media and there was no significant difference in survival ...
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Use of the BacT/Alert Blood Culture System for Culture of Sterile Body Fluids Other than Blood
... methods. BacT/Alert is a fully automated blood culture system for detecting bacteremia and ...in BacT/Alert standard aero- bic and anaerobic bottles, BacT/Alert FAN aerobic and ...
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Clinical Evaluation of BacT/Alert FA Plus and FN Plus Bottles Compared with Standard Bottles
... Blood culture procedures and microbiological analysis. The blood was cultured using a BacT/Alert three-dimensional (3D) (bioMérieux Inc.; here 3D) automated blood culture system. Each blood culture con- ...
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Controlled Clinical Comparison of the BacT/ALERT FN and the Standard Anaerobic SN Blood Culture Medium
... There were fewer false positives with FN than were previ- ously found with anaerobic FAN bottles (10), which suggests that medium modifications or instrument algorithms have been modified successfully by the ...
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Improved detection of bacterial growth in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis effluent by use of BacT/Alert FAN bottles
... the BacT/Alert test bottles; the residual effluent was stored at 48C and was then discarded after 7 ...automated BacT/Alert blood culture instrument (Organon Teknika ...
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In Vitro Evaluation of BacT/Alert FA Blood Culture Bottles and T2Candida Assay for Detection of Candida in the Presence of Antifungals
... flagged as positive. As such, the time savings of these postculture diagnostics are driven by replacing the need for subculturing on media. Recently, a non-culture-based assay called the T2Candida assay gained Food and ...
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Contribution of the BacT/Alert MB Mycobacterium Bottle to Bloodstream Infection Surveillance in Thailand: Added Yield for Burkholderia pseudomallei
... These results may have important clinical implications in set- tings where B. pseudomallei is endemic. In Thailand, patients with suspected sepsis are typically treated with broad-spectrum antibi- otics but not always ...
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Effects of Delayed Entry Conditions on the Recovery and Detection of Microorganisms from BacT/ALERT and BACTEC Blood Culture Bottles
... the BacT/ALERT blood culture bottles recommends that bottles be loaded immediately after inoculation; however, a recent memo to customers states that inoculated bottles may be held at 25°C for up to 24 h ...
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Controlled evaluation of BacT/alert standard anaerobic and FAN anaerobic blood culture bottles for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia
... troduced BacT/Alert, the first continuous-monitoring blood culture ...that BacT/Alert was comparable to the nonradiometric BACTEC 660/730 blood culture systems for recovering pathogenic mi- ...
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Changing role of neonatal sepsis markers in the era of BacT/Alert: is there a need to devise a new septic screen
... and BacT/Alert are reliable blood culture systems for pediatric blood culture specimens and may offer improved and faster recovery of microbes, particularly from patients on antimicrobial ...
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Controlled Clinical Comparison of BacT/Alert FA Plus and FN Plus Blood Culture Media with BacT/Alert FA and FN Blood Culture Media
... over BacT/Alert charcoal-containing media (bioMérieux, ...of BacT/Alert FA and FN media, which contain a proprietary char- coal-based additive, was compared to that of BacT/Alert ...
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Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System
... ABSTRACT BacT/Alert Virtuo is an advanced, automated blood culture system incorporating improved automation and an enhanced detection algorithm to shorten time to ...to BacT/Alert 3D (BTA3D) ...
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BacT/Alert: an automated colorimetric microbial detection system
... Seeded and unseeded BacT/Alert bottles were incubated 35°C and tested in the prototype research instrument to verify sterility of the donor blood samples and to determine the time needed[r] ...
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Comparison of the Bactec 9240 and BacT/Alert Blood Culture Systems for Evaluation of Placental Cord Blood for Transfusion in Neonates
... into BacT/Alert FA, FAN Aerobic and Bactec Plus Aerobic/F ...into BacT/ Alert FA, FAN Aerobic, and Bactec Plus Aerobic/F ...into BacT/Alert FA, FAN Aerobic, and Bactec Plus ...
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Comparison of BacT/Alert with Signal blood culture system
... the BacT/Alert system alone (n 5 70) than by the Signal system alone (n 5 38), as illustrated in Table ...the BacT/Alert system, without reaching statistical ...the BacT/Alert ...
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