Time to positivity of blood cultures in neonates

Sivarama Raju Vamsi; Ramesh Y. Bhat; Leslie E. Lewis; Kalwaje E. Vandana

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Time to positivity of blood cultures in neonates

Sivarama Raju Vamsi, Ramesh Y. Bhat, Leslie E. Lewis, Kalwaje E. Vandana

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Blood culture reports in neonatal sepsis aid physician in either optimizing therapy or discontinuing antibiotics. We determined the time taken for neonatal blood cultures to become positive using the aerobic BacT/Alert system. Of 944 blood cultures from 816 neonates, 139 (14.7%) were positive. Growth of all definitive bacteria, 95% of possible bacteria and 84% of fungi were detected within 48 hours of incubation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	212-214
Number of pages	3
Journal	Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000000018
Publication status	Published - 01-01-2014

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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Time to positivity of blood cultures in neonates

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