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Preparation of a Blood Culture Pellet for Rapid Bacterial Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
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Negative Blood Cultures: Is There Value in Ruling Out Negatives Faster Than 5 Days?
1Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. jkjohnson@som.umaryland.edu.
The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
|October 23, 2019
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