Blood culture-based diagnosis of bacteraemia: State of the art

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 313-322

  Opota, O ^a   Croxatto, A ^a   Prod'hom, G ^a   Greub, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Bacterial pellet; Blood culture; Bloodstream infection; Diagnostic; MALDI TOF MS

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928566410     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.01.003     Document Type: Review

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