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Use of simulated blood cultures for time to detection comparison between BacT/ALERT and BACTEC 9240 blood culture systems.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Viganò, Egidio Francesco Vasconi, Emanuela Agrappi, Carlo Clerici, Pierangelo |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | In order to avoid the influence of pre-analytical steps, the following study was performed by using sterile blood spiked with defined loads of microorganisms as inoculum. Time-to-Detection (TTD) was evaluated for the most frequently encountered bacteria and fungi in septicemia, comparing two commercially available blood culture systems, BACTEC 9240 (Becton Dickinson) and BacT/ALERT (Organon Teknika). A specific medium, Bactec Mycosis IC/F (Becton Dickinson), was compared with the Bactec Plus Aerobic (Becton Dickinson) and FAN Aerobic (Organon Teknika) media for recovery of fungi in general and in case of mixed bacterial/fungal septicemia. The results show that the BACTEC system detects nearly all enrolled microorganisms significantly faster than the BacT/ALERT; the anaerobic vial contributes to the detection of anaerobes and facultative anaerobes and, in the case of BACTEC, shortens TTD; the Bactec Mycosis IC/F bottle shortens TTD of fungi. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.bd.com/resource.aspx?IDX=22493 |
| PubMed reference number | 12493169v1 |
| Volume Number | 44 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Bacteria, Anaerobic Bacterial Count Measurement Blood culture Infertility Microorganism Mycosis Fungoides Sepsis Vial device Yeasts fangchinoline |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
