Open AccessControlled Evaluation of the New BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System for Detection and Time to Detection of Bacteria and Yeasts
Author(s) -
Osman Altun,
Mohammed S. Almuhayawi,
Petra Lüthje,
Rubina Taha,
Måns Ullberg,
Volkan Özenci
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.03362-15
Subject(s) - blood culture , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , biology , antibiotics , genetics
We compared the newly approved BacT/Alert Virtuo blood culture system to the BacT/Alert 3D system using 115 clinical bacterial and fungal isolates in 784 simulated blood culture bottles. The time to detection was reduced by roughly 20% in the Virtuo system (P < 0.0001) while the detection rate did not differ.
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