Clinical Usefulness of Routine Use of Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottle
Author(s) -
Sae Am Song,
Ji Hyun Kim,
Jeong Hwan Shin,
Si Hyun Kim,
Nam Yong Lee,
MiNa Kim,
SunJoo Kim
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annals of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2288-6850
pISSN - 2288-0585
DOI - 10.5145/acm.2014.17.2.35
Subject(s) - anaerobic exercise , blood culture , fungemia , bacteremia , microbiology and biotechnology , facultative , obligate anaerobe , biology , anaerobic bacteria , medicine , bacteria , physiology , antibiotics , ecology , antifungal , genetics
Background: Blood culture for diagnosis of bacter- emia and fungemia comprises aerobic and anaerobic cultures. The clinical utility of routine anaerobic blood culture has been questioned for a long time and was evaluated in this study. Methods: A total of 9,028 positive blood cultures were collected...
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