Comparison of Iodophor and Alcohol Pledgets with the Medi-Flex Blood Culture Prep Kit II for Preventing Contamination of Blood Cultures

Iodophor and alcohol pledgets were compared with the Medi-Flex Prep Kit II for skin disinfection before venipuncture. Of 12,367 blood cultures collected, 6,362 were done with conventional pledgets and 6,005 were done with Medi-Flex kits. Contamination occurred in 351 of 6,362 blood cultures (5.5%; r...

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Publicat a:	J Clin Microbiol
Autors principals:	Wilson, Michael L., Weinstein, Melvin P., Mirrett, Stanley, Reimer, Larry G., Fernando, Cha, Meredith, Frances T., Reller, L. Barth
Format:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicat:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2000
Matèries:	Bacteriology
Accés en línia:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC87661/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11101620/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.38.12.4665-4667.2000
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