aims of this prospective study were to: 1) determine the rate of blood culture contamination 2) determine variety and frequency of contaminant bacteria 3) compare the duration of hospital stay and antibiotic administration in patients with true bacteremia vs those have false positive blood culture....
Blood is drawn from a person and put directly into a blood culture bottle containing a nutritional broth. After the laboratory receives the blood culture bottle, several processes must be completed: provide an environment for the bacteria to grow ...
Blood cultures can detect the presence of bacteria and fungi. Organisms can be classified in a number of ways; blood culture findings use oxygen requirements to categorize findings into one of two groups. Blood culture begins with the introduction of a blood specimen into 2 types of culture medi...
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are the most frequent contaminating bacteria; therefore, we aimed to investigate an indicator of CoNS to predict the increase in blood culture contamination rate (ConR). We performed a retrospective study of selected patients, who underwent blood culture testing....
Blood culture contamination in a neonatal intensive care unit in Shiraz, Southwest-Central Iran. sepsis from blood culture contamination in newborn hospitalized patients in a neonatal intensive care unit and to recognize the most commonly isolated bacteria... Z Hashemizadeh,A Bazargani,MA Davarpanah...
Comparing two blood culture systems for the detection of bacterial contamination in platelet concentratesBACKGROUND The transfusion of platelet concentrates (PCs) contaminated with bacteria may cause serious, and even fatal, septic reactions in patients. The aim of this study was to compare the Versa...
Blood is typically drawn directly into culture media; therefore, our data may underestimate the total time needed for bacteria to grow. While the hospitals in our study have different blood draw protocols, it is generally assumed that cultures take less than 30 minutes from collection to placement...
Blood cultures were successfully implemented in a small hospital in a semi-rural setting in West-Africa, although contamination remained a problem. Blood culture surveillance revealed alarmingly high AMR rates, especially for Gram-negative bacteria. Unbiased estimates for AMR are difficult to obtain in...
Sensitivity and rapidity of blood culture bottles in the detection of cornea organ culture media contamination by bacteria and fungi AIMS: To test the bactericidal activity of standard organ culture medium, and to compare the sensitivity and rapidity of blood culture bottles with convent... G Thure...
Blood culture is the gold standard for diagnosing pathogens in clinical practice, but it is time-consuming, and some bacteria may go undetected due to a variety of factors. Viral infections that cause sepsis cannot be detected by blood culture. In addition, it has recently been considered ...