Correlation between mass and volume of collected blood with positivity of blood cultures

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Neves, Lariessa ^a   Marra, Alexandre Rodrigues ^a   Camargo, Thiago Zinsly Sampaio ^a   Dos Santos, Maura Cristina ^a   Zulin, Flávia ^a   Da Silva, Patrícia Candido ^a   De Moura, Natália Ariede ^a   Da Silva Victor, Elivane ^a   Pasternak, Jacyr ^a   Dos Santos, Oscar Fernando Pavão ^a   Edmond, Michael B ^b   Martino, Marines Dalla Valle ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated methods; Blood culture; Bloodstream infection; Diagnosis; Infection; Quality indicator

Indexed keywords

AGED; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BLOOD; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84940045858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1365-8     Document Type: Article

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