Assessment of the BacT/Alert blood culture system: Rapid bacteremia diagnosis with loading throughout the 24 h

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-37

  Bengteson, Jonas ^a   Wahl, Martin ^a   Larsson, Peter ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacteremia diagnosis; Bacteremia diagnostic speed; Blood culture; Time factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0031965352     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00331.x     Document Type: Article

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