Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories

Doern, G. V., Carroll, K. C., Diekema, D. J., Garey, K. W., Rupp, M. E., Weinstein, M. P., & Sexton, D. J. (2020). Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: A Comprehensive Update on the Problem of Blood Culture Contamination. Clinical Microbiology Reviews.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2020

DOI

10.1128/cmr.00009-19

DOI registrant

American Society for Microbiology

Link

https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.00009-19

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Blood Culture
  • Collection volume, number and independence of sets, asepsis, timing relative to antimicrobials, organism identity, distribution across sets, time to positivity, and clinical context are therefore constitutive interpretive controls rather than optional housekeeping.

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