Emerging data indicating that extended incubation of blood cultures has little clinical value

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1681-1682

  Weinstein, Melvin P ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOBACTERIUM; CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS; CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION; EIKENELLA; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; KINGELLA; LEGIONELLA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28044438691     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497603     Document Type: Note

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