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. 2014 Mar;52(3):980-1.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02773-13. Epub 2014 Jan 3.

Effect of the initial specimen diversion technique on blood culture contamination rates

Khalifa Binkhamis  1 , Kevin Forward
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Effect of the initial specimen diversion technique on blood culture contamination rates

Khalifa Binkhamis et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Mar.

Abstract

The initial specimen diversion technique (ISDT) was first described by Patton and Schmitt (J. Clin. Microbiol. 48:4501-4503, 2010, doi:10.1128/JCM.00910-10). This study looked at the effect of implementation of the ISDT on blood culture contamination rates at our center. We found a reduction of 30.34% in potential blood culture contaminants.

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Numbers of pathogens and probable contaminants pre- and postintervention.
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