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

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Objectives.-To measure blood culture contamination rates in a large number...factors that impact blood culture contamination rates and the trend toward...benchmark data about blood culture contamination rates in a large number...

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

Clinical Chemistry;  June 1, 2006 ;     434 words ......Additionally, blood culture contaminations...Mood culture contamination rates in a large...rates of blood culture contamination...decrease). Blood culture contamination rates dropped from...Decreasing blood culture contamination ...

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...

Reduction in blood culture contamination rate by feedback to phlebotomists

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  May 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......and feedback of blood culture contamination rates to phlebotomists...definition of blood culture contamination...definition. The rate of contamination in blood cultures...real reduction in blood culture contamination...

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...

Management of children at risk for occult bacteremia. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  June 1, 1991 ;     568 words ......antibiotics given on the initial visit. (3) Blood culture alone-blood cultures would be performed...unless a major infection developed. (4) Blood culture plus treatment-blood cultures would...amoxicillin. Patients with a positive blood culture would receive follow-up, and patients...

What is the optimal schedule for obtaining blood cultures? (Tips from...

American Family Physician;  February 1, 2003 ;     390 words ......bacteremia has greatly improved with modern blood culture techniques, problems still exist with...empiric studies to determine the optimal blood culture parameters would be laborious and difficult...the known historical data on various blood culture parameters and attempts to define ...

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 ......common isolates from blood culture samples, and 75 examples...total of 1903 positive blood culture specimens (4%) at the...Institution-specific blood culture contamination rates vary from 1% to more...presence of Brucella sp. in blood culture vials that ...

Usefulness of blood cultures in children with pneumonia. (adapted from the...

American Family Physician;  October 1, 1996 ;     663 words ......44 percent) had been evaluated with blood culture. Eleven (2.7 percent) of the cultures...five times more likely to have had a blood culture than those in whom a CBC was not obtained...were higher in patients who had a blood culture than in patients in whom a culture...

Chlorhexidine vs. Povidone-Iodine Skin Antisepsis for Blood Culture.

American Family Physician;  April 1, 2000 ;     545 words ......significantly lower rate of blood culture contamination than povidone-iodi...and associates analyzed contamination rates between the chlorhexidine...would lower the rate of blood culture contamination in a setting...positive. The rate of blood culture contamination was ...

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...

Multiple visceral abscess in a case of melioidosis

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......pseudomalleiface=-Italic; . Two samples of blood culture were also positive. The medical treatment...septicaemic melioidosis, defined as positive blood culture and more than one organ involved (ii...melioidosis is defined as positive blood culture and only one foci or no apparent ...

Septicaemic melioidosis in a tertiary care hospital in south India

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......studied. Results: Of the 28 patients of blood culture proven septicaemic melioidosis, the...identification in the laboratory. Key words Blood culture - liurklioldcna pseutloinallei - scplicacmic...by the isolation of organisms from blood culture. Material & Methods This study...

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...