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The blood culture contamination rate in a lab may be well below the 3% national benchmark; however, consider this simple exercise: Hospital & Lab Information Blood Culture Contamination Data Annual Blood Culture Volume (1) Your Annual volume Contamination Rate (2) Your Contamination rate Contaminated Bottles Annual volume x Contamination rate Each contaminated sample (3) $5,000.
Lab basics 202 by Beall, Anne / Medical Laboratory Observer
The modified Duke diagnostic criteria are heavily based upon positive blood cultures, and a low microbiologic yield from blood culture raises questions as to the validity of these criteria in diagnosing culture-negative endocarditis in developing countries.
Clinical profile and outcome of infective endocarditis at the Aga ... by Tariq, Muhammad; Siddiqui, Bilal Karim; Jadoon, Atif; Alam, Mahboob; Khan, Sohail Abrar; Atiq, Mehna / International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health (IJCRIMPH)
Candidatus Bartonella melophagi was isolated by blood culture from 2 women, 1 of whom was co-infected with B.
Isolation of candidatus bartonella melophagi from human blood by Maggi, Ricardo G.; Kosoy, Michael; Mintzer, Melanie; Breitschwerdt, Edward B. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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