Blood culture
Evaluation of new blood culture processing systems
... by using simulated blood culture specimens for testing i removal of antimicrobial agents, ii bacterial stability in the absence of antimicrobial agents, and iii bacterial recovery from f[r] ...
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How Reliable Is a Negative Blood Culture Result? Volume of Blood Submitted for Culture in Routine Practice in a Children's Hospital
... All blood cultures from infants and children up to 18 years of age that were received in the microbiology laboratory at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne during a 6-month period were included in the ...
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Prospective Comparison of Eubacterial PCR and Measurement of Procalcitonin Levels with Blood Culture for Diagnosing Septicemia in Intensive Care Unit Patients
... with blood culture for diagnosing septicemia in ICU ...Though blood culture is consid- ered the gold standard test method for diagnosing septicemia, this method lacks sensitivity and is ...
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Clinical Evaluation of the FilmArray Blood Culture Identification Panel in Identification of Bacteria and Yeasts from Positive Blood Culture Bottles
... from blood cultures, such as agar-based culture techniques, take a considerable time, from 12 to 72 ...positive blood culture bottles have been suggested, including pathogen-specific real-time ...
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Knowledge and practice among the pediatric post graduate residents regarding the technique of blood culture sampling
... culture results occur when a contaminant organism that is not present in the patient’s bloodstream is grown in a blood culture specimen. Contamination can happen at different levels during the ...
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Comparison of the automated blood culture system versus conventional methods for culture of body fluids
... conventional culture methods and automated culture system ...large-volume culture methods for body fluids other than blood increase recovery compared to traditional plated-medium ...automated ...
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Critical assessment of blood culture techniques: analysis of recovery of obligate and facultative anaerobes, strict aerobic bacteria, and fungi in aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles
... Critical Assessment of Blood Culture Techniques: Analysis of Recovery of Obligate and Facultative Anaerobes, Strict Aerobic Bacteria, and Fungi in Aerobic and Anaerobic Blood Culture Bot[r] ...
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Laboratory Workflow Analysis of Culture of Periprosthetic Tissues in Blood Culture Bottles
... ABSTRACT Culture of periprosthetic tissue specimens in blood culture bottles is more sensitive than conventional techniques, but the impact on laboratory workflow has yet to be ...of culture of ...
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Use of the BacT/Alert Blood Culture System for Culture of Sterile Body Fluids Other than Blood
... using blood culture bottles for culture of specimens from patients suspected of having routine peritonitis? Although the results of our study were not statistically significant, there was a trend ...
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A change of culture: reducing blood culture contamination rates in an Emergency Department
... a blood culture but there was variability in the methods and equipment ...for blood culture sampling along with staff education to support this ...contaminated blood culture was ...
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Agreement between Parallel Canine Blood and Urine Cultures: Is Urine Culture the Poor Man's Blood Culture?
... acquisition, blood cultures are infrequently ...and blood cultures, we retrospectively analyzed parallel blood and urine specimens submitted for culture from dogs at the NC State Veterinary ...
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Comparison of automated Difco ESP blood culture system with biphasic BBL Septi Chek system for detection of bloodstream infections in pediatric patients
... monitored blood culture system, the Difco ESP system, with that of a widely used conventional pediatric sys- tem, the Becton-Dickinson Septi-Chek ...
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Evaluation of Twenty Three Blood Culture Media
... Evaluation ofthe 23 blood culture media supplemented with RBC-SM showed that BHI broths from Difco, Gibco, and Pfizer, Columbia broths from Gibco and Scott, TSB from Difco and Gibco, and[r] ...
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Practical aerobic membrane filtration blood culture technique: clinical blood culture trial
... During the course of preliminary clinical trials of an improved membrane filter blood culture system, filter plugging produced by a gelling of the lysing solution was observed when the p[r] ...
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Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy of Periprosthetic Tissue Culture in Blood Culture Bottles to That of Prosthesis Sonication Fluid Culture for Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) by Use of Bayesian Latent Class Modeling and IDSA PJI Criteria for Classification
... tissue culture, culturing tissue in BCBs improves the performance of this method, reaching the performance of sonicate fluid ...tissue culture methods ...Third, culture conditions, including shaking, ...
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Development of a lysis filtration blood culture technique
... Human blood 10% vol/vol in brain heart infusion broth was mixed with lysing solution in the proportions described in the lysing procedure.. This was divided into 50-ml volumes in milk di[r] ...
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Evaluation of blood culture procedures in a pediatric hospital
... The following information was recorded for all cultures: age and hospital location of patient, antibiotic therapy in the previous 24 h, inoculum volume, number of positive cultures per b[r] ...
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Culture of periprosthetic tissue in blood culture bottles for diagnosing periprosthetic joint infection
... There were several potential limitations in this meta- analysis. First, there was no gold standard for diagnosing PJI among the included studies, which had different refer- ence standards. Therefore, the estimates of ...
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Clinical laboratory comparison of the 10 ml isolator blood culture system with BACTEC radiometric blood culture media
... During the first phase of the study, the aerobic and anaerobic bottles were inoculated with 3 ml of blood each because this volume not only provided an effective 1:10 dilution of blood i[r] ...
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The Costs of a Blood Culture
... expression of 995 immunosuppressive genes (47) in SCLC cell line, PDX and patient tumor datasets. With[r] ...
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