Open AccessRole of Anaerobic Blood Cultures in Neonatal Bacteremia
Author(s) -
Nathan Messbarger,
Kari Neemann
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2048-7207
pISSN - 2048-7193
DOI - 10.1093/jpids/pix088
Subject(s) - anaerobic exercise , bacteremia , medicine , blood culture , sepsis , obligate anaerobe , population , anaerobic bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , physiology , biology , bacteria , antibiotics , environmental health , genetics
Evaluation for neonatal sepsis routinely includes performing both aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures despite our lack of knowledge of the true incidence of anaerobic bacteremia in this age group and the consequences of not performing these paired cultures.
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