Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
To assess relative performances in the BacT/ALERT blood culture system, we compared results from the direct inoculation of standard media and inoculation after the transport of blood samples in Vacutainer tubes with sodium polyanethol sulfonate. No significant differences in yields or times to detection were found for 387 clinically important isolates from 4,306 blood culture sets.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Pien, BC; Mirrett, S; Crews, BR; Reller, LB; Woods, CW
Published Date
- April 2007
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 45 / 4
Start / End Page
- 1357 - 1359
PubMed ID
- 17267634
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC1865855
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0095-1137
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1128/JCM.02091-06
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States