TY - JOUR
T1 - Routine aerobic terminal subculturing of blood cultures in a cancer hospital
AU - Kiehn, T. E.
AU - Wong, B.
AU - Edwards, F. F.
AU - Armstrong, D.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - Routine terminal aerobic subcultures of macroscopically negative blood culture bottles were evaluated during a 15-month period when 30,000 blood cultures were processed. Each blood culture set consisted of a vented and an unvented 50-ml broth bottle. Forth-eight pathogens and 47 contaminants were isolated only from terminal subcultures. Twenty-two of the significant isolates were yeasts (usually recovered from vented bottles), and 10 were Pseudomonas aeruginosa (usually recovered from unvented bottles). Blood cultures that were positive by terminal subculture provided clinically relevant information in many cases, whether other blood cultures were positive or not. Microbiology laboratories, particularly those in hospitals where yeasts and P. aeruginosa are commonly isolated from blood specimens, should evaluate carefully the need for terminal subcultures of blood culture bottles before abandoning their use.
AB - Routine terminal aerobic subcultures of macroscopically negative blood culture bottles were evaluated during a 15-month period when 30,000 blood cultures were processed. Each blood culture set consisted of a vented and an unvented 50-ml broth bottle. Forth-eight pathogens and 47 contaminants were isolated only from terminal subcultures. Twenty-two of the significant isolates were yeasts (usually recovered from vented bottles), and 10 were Pseudomonas aeruginosa (usually recovered from unvented bottles). Blood cultures that were positive by terminal subculture provided clinically relevant information in many cases, whether other blood cultures were positive or not. Microbiology laboratories, particularly those in hospitals where yeasts and P. aeruginosa are commonly isolated from blood specimens, should evaluate carefully the need for terminal subcultures of blood culture bottles before abandoning their use.
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U2 - 10.1128/jcm.18.4.885-889.1983
DO - 10.1128/jcm.18.4.885-889.1983
M3 - Article
C2 - 6415101
AN - SCOPUS:0020594082
SN - 0095-1137
VL - 18
SP - 885
EP - 889
JO - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
IS - 4
ER -