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Article: Blood Cultures 2004.
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- Infectious Disease Alert
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Blood Cultures 2004
Abstract & Commentary
Synopsis: A retrospective review has resulted in revision of recommendations for optimal methods of blood culturing in adults.
Source: Cockerill FR III, et al. Optimal Testing Parameters for Blood Cultures. Clin Infect Dis. 2004;38:1724-1730.
Cockerill and colleagues examined the effects of the volume of blood, the number of consecutive blood culture specimens, and the incubation time on the recovery of pathogens from 37,568 blood cultures obtained from adults. The study was performed at the Rochester, MN Mayo Clinic from 1996 to 1997, and used the automated BACTEC 9240 instrument. For each ...