How to optimize the use of blood cultures for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections? A state-of-the art

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Lamy, Brigitte ^a   Dargère, Sylvie ^b   Arendrup, Maiken C ^c   Parienti, Jean Jacques ^b   Tattevin, Pierre ^d  

^a MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Blood culture; Bloodstream infection; Contamination; Multi sampling strategy; Sensitivity; Single sampling strategy; Specificity

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; IODINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANTISEPSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; SAMPLING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TINCTURE;

EID: 84973557360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00697     Document Type: Review

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