Septicaemic melioidosis in a tertiary care hospital in south India

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......patients of blood culture proven septicaemic melioidosis, the organism...Key words Blood culture - liurklioldcna...scplicacmic melioidosis Melioidosis...septicaemic melioidosis, confirmed...organisms from blood culture. Material...

Solitary blood cultures: A College of American Pathologist Q-Probes Study...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......determine the frequency with which solitary blood culture samples were submitted to laboratories...were associated with lower solitary blood culture rates (SBCRs). Design.-Participants...prospectively on the numbers of solitary blood culture sets from adult patients submitted...

Blood culture contamination: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......practices associated with contamination of blood culture specimens from adults. Design and Setting...involving prospective evaluation of adult blood culture contamination rates in 640 institutions...studied. The median adult inpatient blood culture contamination rate was 2.5% ...

Trends in Blood Culture Contamination: A College of American Pathologists...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Context.-Blood culture contamination extends hospital stays...of care. Objectives.-To measure blood culture contamination rates in a large number...that provided quarterly data about blood culture results, using a uniform definition...

Polymerase chain reaction for the detection of bacteremia / Discussion

The American Surgeon;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......method to detect bacteremia than blood culture. The PCR was performed on blood obtained from patients during blood culture draws and on blood from normal...provided 125 blood samples for blood culture comparison with PCR. Specific...

The in vitro simulation of Mycoplasma hominis isolation using supplemented...

British Journal of Biomedical Science;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......6 and as experiments using simulated blood culture samples,8-11 have shown that blood culture systems may be limited in their ability...polvanetholsulphonate (SPS) used in most blood culture systems.8,10 The mechanism of inhibition...

Presumptive diagnosis of brucellosis from contaminated blood cultures in...

British Journal of Biomedical Science;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the most common isolates from blood culture samples, and 75 examples were...from a total of 1903 positive blood culture specimens (4%) at the King Fahad...during 2000. Institution-specific blood culture contamination rates vary from...

Typhidot test to detect IgG & IgM antibodies in typhoid fever

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......30 Widal positive sera, 30 sera from blood culture positive patients, 60 Widal negative sera and 30 samples from patients whose blood culture grew Gram negative bacilli (GNB) other...will be a useful complementary test to blood culture and the Widal test in the diagnosis...

Effect of having a phlebotomist in the ER on turn around time and specimen...

Clinical Chemistry;  June 1, 2006 ;     434 words ......medical technologist. Additionally, blood culture contaminations can lead to expensive...Additionally, we monitored the rates of blood culture contamination for non-laboratory personnel...decrease), and TROPONIN I (26% decrease). Blood culture contamination rates dropped from 6...

Endocarditis due to a nutritionally variant streptococcus: a lesson in...

British Journal of Biomedical Science;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......cysteine or other thiol compounds. The blood culture system in the author's laboratory uses...evidence that isolation is improved if the blood culture is subcultured on solid media within...inoculated routinely in processing of the blood culture. Here, cysteine in the FAA permitted...

Lab report: Here's what happens when you undergo testing.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......of the computer monitoring 240 small blood culture bottles flashes bright red, an alarm...and those closest to the continuous blood culture monitor snap to attention. One of the...microbiology technologist assigned to the blood culture monitor at Harris Medical Laboratory...

Cepheid Gets FDA OK for On-Demand Diagnostic Test.

Health & Beauty Close-Up;  October 3, 2008 ;     613 words ......Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert MRSA/SA Blood Culture (BC) test, which runs on the GeneXpert...typically methicillin susceptible) in blood culture bottles showing gram-positive cocci...MRSA/SA BC test processes positive blood culture specimens to determine if a patient...

Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First On-Demand Diagnostic Test for...

PR Newswire;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......FDA) to market its Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Blood Culture (BC) test, which runs on the GeneXpert...typically methicillin susceptible) in blood culture bottles showing gram-positive cocci...MRSA/SA BC test processes positive blood culture specimens to determine if a patient...

2 DAY IN MINUTES: culture.(Features)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  August 16, 2008 ;     22 words ...Robson Green talks about how he's revelling in his role in Wire in the Blood culture 46 Join the culture club at www.thejournalcultureclub.co.uk

Bacteraemia among patients attending a cancer hosptial in Lahore, Pakistan

British Journal of Biomedical Science;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......empirically with antibiotics, and a blood culture taken. Over an 18-month period, 3025 (934 patients) blood culture sets were received by the microbiology...Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan. The blood culture sets used a blood/tryptone Soya...