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Valeria Fabre1, George F Jones1, Yea-Jen Hsu2
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology : ASHE
|October 31, 2022
Abstract:
The optimal timing of blood culture (BCx) sets collection has not been evaluated with continuous BCx detection systems. The yield of BCx was similar between short intervals (median, 3 minutes) and longer intervals (median, 16 or 43 minutes) among 5,856 BCx, except for improved polymicrobial bacteremia detection with long-interval BCx.
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