The performance of 4 different supplements and 5 blood culture bottles types in detection of bacteria and Candida spp. in simulated sterile body fluid cultures

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-4

  Nylén, Therese ^a   Saeedi, Baharak ^a   Borg, Camilla ^a   Ullberg, Måns ^a   Özenci, Volkan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood culture bottles; Infection; Sterile body fluids

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMIN; HEMIN ISOVITALEX ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE BOTTLE; BRAIN HEART INFUSION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FASTIDIUOUS ORGANISMS SUPPLEMENT; FUNGAL DETECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HORSE BLOOD; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERILE BODY FLUID CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84881551689     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.05.017     Document Type: Article

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