Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection

Thorax

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 658-662

  Menzies, Sarah M ^a   Rahman, Najib M ^a   Wrightson, John M ^a   Davies, Helen E ^a   Shorten, Robert ^b   Gillespie, Stephen H ^b   Davies, Christopher W H ^c   Maskell, Nick A ^d   Jeffrey, Andrew A ^e   Lee, Y C Gary ^a   Davies, Robert J O ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NORTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE BOTTLE CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79960584244     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.157842     Document Type: Article

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