Peripheral Blood Culture (PBC)
The effectiveness of interventions to reduce peripheral blood culture contamination in acute care: a systematic review protocol
... Contamination rates in BC vary in the literature, with reported figures between 3 and 12% [7–13]. However, most baseline contamination rates reported are above the 3% recommendation in the current guideline [5]. Some of ...
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Endocarditis and Aortal Embolization Caused by Aspergillus terreus in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission: Diagnosis by Peripheral Blood Culture
... Differential blood count- ing showed 78% granulocytes, 14% lymphocytes, and 8% ...mg/dl; blood sedimentation rate, 35/70; fibrinogen, 432 mg/dl) were elevated, and a mild cholestasis (alkaline phosphatase, ...
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Reducing the Blood Culture Contamination Rate in a Pediatric Emergency Department and Subsequent Cost Savings
... all peripheral blood cultures collected at the Monroe Carell Jr Children ’ s Hospi- tal at Vanderbilt ...in peripheral blood culture ...tracked peripheral blood ...
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Time to Blood Culture Positivity as a Marker for Catheter Related Candidemia
... of blood drawn simultaneously from the catheter lumen and peripheral blood; a 5- to 10-fold higher concentration in the catheter lumen is highly suggestive of catheter-related infection (14, ...
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Blood Cultures at Central Line Insertion in the Intensive Care Unit: Comparison with Peripheral Venipuncture
... shock. Blood cul- tures obtained under these circumstances have a greater like- lihood of detecting true ...by peripheral venipuncture are often drawn for investigations of fever or leukocytosis, possibly ...
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Spontaneous apoptosis of blood dendritic cells in patients with breast cancer
... for blood DCs following stimulation (24 h) with a cytokine cocktail (CC), synthetic double-stranded RNA (poly I:C) or CD40 ligand (CD40L) as described in Materials and ...in blood DCs was determined by ...
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Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Culture of Rhinella arenarum
... microscope, culture stove, laminar flow and centrifuge can be performed the cytogenetic study, in our case, of Rhinella arenarum and that can be implemented to other species of ...from peripheral ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC4887157.pdf
... or both. OX40 was not tested in these settings because we could not obtain an anti-OX40 mAb with an agonistic activity. First, we found that costimulation with either anti-CD28, anti–4-1BB mAb, or both increased the ...
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Effective treatment of SIVcpz induced immunodeficiency in a captive western chimpanzee
... Cotton received ART daily by oral administration of crushed tablets dissolved in diluted fruit syrup, but caretakers noticed that he did not always ingest his medication completely. We thus continued to moni- tor his ...
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Estrogen and progesterone play pivotal roles in endothelial progenitor cell proliferation
... study. Peripheral venous blood (20 ml) from healthy young volunteers in the menstrual phase (n = 12; 30 ± 4 years-old), follicular phase (n = 8; 30 ± 5 years-old), luteal phase (n = 16; 28 ± 4 years-old) ...
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Inflammatory Responses of Bovine Polymorphonuclear Neutrophils Induced by Staphylococcal Enterotoxin C via Stimulation of Mononuclear Cells
... 37°C in the presence or absence of superoxide dismutase (SOD) (140 U/ml; Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan), and then ferricytochrome c (2.4 mg/ml; Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.) and phorbol ...
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A simple and efficient method for the preparation of live leukocytes from peripheral blood using the LeukoCatchTM system
... from peripheral blood (PB) are of great value for diagnosis as well as basic and clinical re- ...whole blood using novel tools, named tLeukoCatch (tip-type) or sLeukoCatch (syringe-type), which is ...
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Soluble recombinant CR2 (CD21) inhibits Epstein-Barr virus infection.
... A EBV-containing B95-8 culture supernatant was incubated with various amounts of purified recombinant CR2 prior to the addition of 6 x 105 human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.. The [r] ...
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Brain Perfusion Scintigraphy in Evaluation of Pathogenesis of Fatigue in Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) – A Pilot Study
... that PBC patients had a significantly lower central activation before fatiguing exercise and transplanted and non-transplanted patients show similar abnormalities ...in PBC patients, and it was supported ...
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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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In Vitro Stem Cell Derived Red Blood Cells for Transfusion: Are We There Yet?
... lifelong production in bone marrow. Given the right condi- tions, these stem cells have the potential to differentiate into mature RBCs after undergoing multiple steps in matura- tion. Despite the novelty of this recent ...
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Functional characterisation of bone marrow stromal cells and their responses to leukaemia therapy
... 1994 Phenotypic Analysis and Characterization of CD34+ Cells from Normal Human Bone Marrow, Cord Blood, Peripheral Blood, and Mobilized Peripheral Blood from Patients Undergoing Autologo[r] ...
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Indwelling Umbilical Arterial Catheter: A Preferred Sampling Site for Blood Culture
... A total of 13 blood culture pairs were positive for the same pathogenic organisms from the umbil- ical artery line and the peripheral vein; the du- ration ofcatheter placement was betwee[r] ...
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Functional characteristics of circulating granulocytes in severe congenital neutropenia caused by ELANE mutations
... automated blood analysers showed similar results as blood smear ...automated blood analysers and blood smears in SCN1 ...automated blood analysers mistakes these eosinophils for ...
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Hematopoietic stem cells from peripheral blood the perspective of non mobilized peripheral blood
... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) developed two RWV bioreactors for tissue mass culture [80]. The slow turn lateral vessel (STLV) bioreactor has been used to culture several kinds of ...
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