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Frieder Schaumburg1, Franziska Schuler1, Manfred Fobker2
1Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|June 16, 2024
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To have an impact on the mortality of bloodstream infections, microbiological diagnostics of blood cultures (BC) should provide first results within 12 h. Here, we show how a decentralized BC incubation connected to the central BC incubators via a browser-based application significantly reduces turnaround times.
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