Blood cultures: Key elements for best practices and future directions

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 301-316

  Riedel, Stefan ^a   Carroll, Karen C ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures; Bacteremia; Blood culture; Blood culture contamination; Blood culture volume; Nucleic acid amplification testing

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLORHEXIDINE; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; IODINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

AEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ANAEROBIC CELL CULTURE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGEMIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78149410103     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-010-0069-1     Document Type: Review

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