Forskningensdag2009 abstracts - Hospitalsenhed Midt

Title
5. a comparison of the Yield and Speed of bactec Plus aerobic/F and Peds Plus/F blood culture
bottles
Forfattere
1, 2 Hans Linde Nielsen and 1 Jørgen Prag
1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Viborg Hospital, Viborg
2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg
Abstract
To examine the benefit of adding BACTEC Peds Plus/F bottle with 40 ml fluid to a standard blood culture set consisting
of a Plus Aerobic/F and a Plus Anaerobic/F blood culture bottle, both with 25 ml fluid. The paediatric bottle is supplemented
with animal tissue digest (0.1 % W/V) and has less sodium polyanethole-sulfonate (0.02 % W/V contra 0,05
in Plus Aerobic/F) and recent studies suggest that ordinary blood cultures only occasionally detect fastidious microorganism
like Helicobacter spp. The aim of the study was to compare the yield and speed of Plus Aerobic/F with the
Peds Plus/F bottle.
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