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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2007 Apr;45(4):1357-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02091-06. Epub 2007 Jan 31.

Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes

Brian C Pien  1 , Stanley Mirrett, Betty R Crews, L Barth Reller, Christopher W Woods
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes

Brian C Pien et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Apr.

Abstract

To assess relative performances in the BacT/ALERT blood culture system, we compared results from the direct inoculation of standard media and inoculation after the transport of blood samples in Vacutainer tubes with sodium polyanethol sulfonate. No significant differences in yields or times to detection were found for 387 clinically important isolates from 4,306 blood culture sets.

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