Blood culture system
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 ...
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Use of the BacT/Alert Blood Culture System for Culture of Sterile Body Fluids Other than Blood
... large-volume culture methods for sterile body fluids other than blood in- crease recovery compared to traditional plated-medium ...automated blood culture system for detecting ...
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Rapid Detection of Microorganisms in Blood Cultures of Newborn Infants Utilizing an Automated Blood Culture System
... automated blood culture system is directly correlated with the number of microbes in the sample ...tient’s blood stream and are part of the blood sample cultured, the current technology ...
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Multicenter Clinical Evaluation of BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System
... automated blood culture system incorporating improved automation and an enhanced detection algorithm to shorten time to ...matched system design clinical trial. Blood was added to ...
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Failure of an Automated Blood Culture System To Detect Nonfermentative Gram Negative Bacteria
... from blood cultures were Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-negative staph- ylococci, ...the blood include ...positive blood cultures were gram-negative bacteria and ...preincubated blood ...
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Evaluation of the Nanosphere Verigene Gram Positive Blood Culture Assay with the VersaTREK Blood Culture System and Assessment of Possible Impact on Selected Patients
... positive blood cultures without the interven- tion of an infectious disease pharmacist ...MSSA culture and sensitivity re- sults were ...rapid blood culture iden- tification ...
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Clinical comparison of a new automated infrared blood culture system with the BACTEC 460 system
... The purpose of this multicenter clinical trial was to determine whether the nonradiometric aerobic and anaerobic media tested on the NR-660 instrument would give results equivalent to th[r] ...
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Comparison of the VersaTREK blood culture system against the Bactec9240 system in patients with suspected bloodstream infections
... additional culture media ...this system is stated not to be limited by this ...the system for detection is too low. Furthermore, the system also vortexes the aerobic bottles compared to the ...
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Comparison of BacT/Alert with Signal blood culture system
... of blood (10 ml) sampled for culture could be compared (3, ...Signal system claims that the medium allows growth of aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms, whereas the BacT/Alert producer recommends ...
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Yield, clinical significance, and cost of a combination BACTEC plus Septi Chek blood culture system
... By adding a vented Septi-Chek bottle to a standard BACTEC system blood culture, we demonstrated that a 20-ml blood volume cultured with a combination BACTEC plus Septi-Chek system yielde[r] ...
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Detection of bacteremia by Difco ESP blood culture system
... Among individual organisms isolated in aerobic broth cultures, only pneumococci were recovered significantly more often by the ESP system than the BACTEC NR660 system Table 2, although s[r] ...
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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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Clinical laboratory comparison of a slide blood culture system with a conventional broth system
... Again, the advantage of the slide culture system was that growth was initially detected on the agar slides, whereas the initial means of detection in the TSB bottles was most frequently [r] ...
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Comparative evaluation of nonradiometric BACTEC and improved oxoid signal blood culture systems in a clinical laboratory
... In conclusion, this study has shown that the BACTEC NR660 blood culture system is superior to the Oxoid Signal system for both the yield and speed of detection of positive blood cultures[r] ...
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BACTEC high blood volume fungal medium versus Isolator comparison misleading
... Controlled comparison of the BACTEC high-blood-volume fungal medium, BACTEC Plus 26 aerobic blood culture bottle, and 10-milliliter Isolator blood culture system for detection of fungemi[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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Understanding Laboratory Methods and Their Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance, at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
... routine blood culture data. To improve the quality of blood cul- ture data and minimise improper estimates of antimicro- bial resistance, it is essential that important steps be taken to improve the ...
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Clinical Profile and Outcome Oclinical of Neonatal Sepsis in a Tertiary Care Centre, Trichy, Tamil Nadu
... Various studies by other authors show variable results to this test. 15,18,28 The differences in the results of this parameter shown by the different studies is due to variations in the diagnostic criteria, the time of ...
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Haematologial Scoring System: An Early Predictor of Neonatal Sepsis as Compared to Blood Culture
... white blood cells in the ...peripheral blood. Rarely, micromegakaryocytes may be seen in the peripheral blood of early ...red blood cells are 3 to 5 times more than that of ...
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A Clinico-Bacteriological Study of Neonatal Septicemia in Govt. Stanley Hospital, Chennai.
... Because blood culture media have been developed as enrichment broths to encourage the multiplications of even one bacterium, it follows that these media will enhance the growth of any stray contaminating ...
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