Reassessment of the incubation time in a controlled clinical comparison of the BacT/Alert aerobic FAN bottle and standard anaerobic bottle used aerobically for the detection of bloodstream infections

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Cornish, N ^a,b   Kirkley, B A ^a   Easley, K A ^a   Washington, J A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; YEAST;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032437784     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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