Definition A blood culture is done when a person has symptoms of a blood infection, also calledbacteremia. Blood is drawn from the person one or more times and is tested in a laboratory to find and identify any microorganism present and growing in the blood. If a microorganism is found, ...
A blood culture was defined as any number of BCB (recommended: 2 for adults, 1 for children < 15 years) sampled at the same moment. Contamination was defined as isolation of any of the following bacterial species [17]: coagulase-negativeStaphylococcusspecies,Bacillusspecies,Corynebacteriumspeci...
Misclassification of contamination is possible; some coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species found could have been pathogens, especially in neonates [52]; on the other hand, some bacteria counted as pathogens may have been more often contaminant than pathogen in this setting; this has been described...
Blood cultureCutibacterium is a genus often considered a contaminant when present in blood cultures, but it can also cause severe infections, especially related to implanted foreign materials. We investigated the incidence and features of patients with true Cutibacterium infection. Patients with positive ...
M. luteus has also been reported to be a food contaminant. In developing countries, S. flexneri is most predominant cause for acute bloody diarrhea known as bacillary dysentery. P. mirabilis has also been associated with food spoilage in fresh meat, poultry and seafood. S. enteritidis has ...
exon junctions in order to avoid amplification of contaminant genomic DNA and pre-mRNA. In order to ensure generation of a single amplicon per qPCR reaction, the primers were selected based on the melting curve analysis performed using Realplex software version 2.2 (Quiagen)....
Persistent fever and atypical pathogen in blood culture … Think beyond a skin contaminant!ShaheenDepartment of Hospital MedicineK.Department of Hospital MedicineKhaderDepartment of Hospital MedicineS.Department of Hospital MedicineAlraiyesDepartment of Hospital Medicine...
Persistent fever and atypical pathogen in blood culture ... Think beyond a skin contaminant!PATHOGENIC microorganismsSKIN diseasesBLOOD microbiologyDISEASE progressionCHEST painCORONARY diseaseCORONARY artery bypassdoi:10.1093/qjmed/hcs184Shaheen, K.
It has been noted that using otherwise discarded fetal blood offers the benefit of inoculating much higher blood culture volumes, which increases the sensitivity of the blood culture [7–9]. Concern is sometimes raised about con- tamination rates of umbilical cord blood cultures, par- ticularly ...
Diurnal variability in patient visits, blood culture activity, and contaminant culture rate.ChihJan, ChangChiJung, WuHsiangChin, HsuChiuHui, WuFangYing, ShihShouWen, WangYiHui, WuChiaMing, ChangYiFang, TuChihHsien, Chi