Blood culture contamination: Having your cake and eating it

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-102

  Weightman, N C ^a   Kerr, K G ^a  

^a HARROGATE AND DISTRICT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CHLORHEXIDINE;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISINFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMIST; SAFETY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYRINGE;

BLOOD; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; SEPSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84455169574     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2011.08.023     Document Type: Letter

References (1)

1. Thomas S., Cheesbrough J., Plumb S., et al. Impact of a blood culture collection kit on the quality of blood culture sampling: fear and the law of unintended consequences. J Hosp Infect 2011, 78:256-259.