Prolonged Incubation and Extensive Subculturing Do Not Increase Recovery of Clinically Significant Microorganisms from Standard Automated Blood Cultures | Zendy

E. J. Baron | Zendy; John D. Scott | Zendy; Lucy S. Tompkins | Zendy

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Prolonged Incubation and Extensive Subculturing Do Not Increase Recovery of Clinically Significant Microorganisms from Standard Automated Blood Cultures

Author(s) -

E. J. Baron,

John D. Scott,

Lucy S. Tompkins

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/497595

Subject(s) - fastidious organism , incubation period , incubation , medicine , eikenella corrodens , haemophilus , microbiology and biotechnology , actinobacillus , blood culture , haemophilus parainfluenzae , bacteria , biology , antibiotics , biochemistry , genetics , periodontitis

An extensive blood culture protocol, including prolonged incubation of cultures, for 215 patients believed to have had endocarditis yielded only 3 clinically relevant results. Twenty-four Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella (i.e., HACEK) organisms were recovered from standard 5-day blood cultures during the same time period. Specialized methods and not extended incubation times are recommended for recovery of fastidious agents of septicemia.

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