Comparison of BacT/Alert FAN and FAN Plus Bottles with Conventional Medium for Culturing Cerebrospinal Fluid | Zendy

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Comparison of BacT/Alert FAN and FAN Plus Bottles with Conventional Medium for Culturing Cerebrospinal Fluid

Author(s) -

In Young Yoo,

Sejong Chun,

Dong Joon Song,

Hee Jae Huh,

Nam Yong Lee

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01147-16

Subject(s) - cerebrospinal fluid , cryptococcus neoformans , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , biology , pathology

We compared the BacT/Alert system FAN and FAN Plus media to conventional media for culturing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with 2,545 samples. FAN/FAN Plus bottles showed better performance for isolating microorganisms in CSF than conventional media (positive rate, 7.2% [182/2,545] versus 3.1% [80/2,545]). The incremental recovery rate ofCryptococcus neoformans from FAN Plus bottles was higher than that from FAN bottles.

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