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Contaminant, coloniser or invader? 2. Maximising diagnostic yield from clinical bacteriology
Author(s) -
Normand Elizabeth
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.29.1.28
Subject(s) - bacteriology , context (archaeology) , interpretation (philosophy) , sampling (signal processing) , yield (engineering) , psychology , medicine , biology , computer science , philosophy , bacteria , linguistics , physics , genetics , paleontology , filter (signal processing) , thermodynamics , computer vision
THIS article, the second of two aiming to help practitioners avoid the frustration of inconclusive bacteriology results, explains how to maximise diagnostic yield from clinical samples. It also reviews the principles of interpreting culture results in a clinical context on a case‐by‐case basis. Host‐bacteria interactions are relevant to both sampling and interpretation, and are discussed in Part 1, published on pages 22 to 26 of this issue.