Evaluation of a Routine Anaerobic Subculture of Blood Cultures for Detection of Anaerobic Bacteremia

The value of a routine 48-h anaerobic subculture of blood cultures was assessed in our laboratory over a 4-month period. Excluding presumed contaminants, anaerobes represented 51 (6.9%) of the total number of 734 positive cultures. Sixteen isolates (all Bacteroides) from six patients were detected b...

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Main Authors: Paisley, John W., Rosenblatt, Jon E., Hall, Marsha, Washington, John A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1978
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC275339/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/370151
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