Blood culture volume and detection of coagulase negative staphylococcal septicaemia in neonates
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Blood culture volume and detection of coagulase negative staphylococcal septicaemia in neonates.
A prospective, blind study was carried out to determine: the amount of blood submitted for culture from neonates; whether small blood volumes resulted in false negative results; and whether there was a temporal relation between volume of blood cultured and time to positivity. Seventy three bottles were evaluated. They contained a median of 0.63 ml of blood. Twenty nine bottles (39.7%) contained...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/fn.77.2.f157a