Transport time for blood culture bottles: Underlying factors and its consequences

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 286-290

  Rönnberg, Caroline ^a   Mildh, Masako ^a   Ullberg, Måns ^a   Özenci, Volkan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Sepsis; Time to detection; Total detection time; Transport time

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME TO DETECTION; TOTAL DETECTION TIME; TRANSPORT TIME;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; SEPSIS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84879178455     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.03.031     Document Type: Article

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