Clinical Usefulness of Routine Use of Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottle / 대한임상미생물학회지
Annals of Clinical Microbiology
;
: 35-41, 2014.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-12612
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Blood culture for diagnosis of bacteremia and fungemia comprises aerobic and anaerobic cultures. The clinical utility of routine anaerobic blood culture has been questioned for a long time and was evaluated in this study.METHODS:
A total of 9,028 positive blood cultures were collected from adults at four university-affiliated hospitals. We recorded the species distribution according to growth in aerobic or anaerobic culture.RESULTS:
Among the 9,028 positive results, 3,239 cases (35.9%) occurred in aerobic culture, 1,543 cases (17.1%) in anaerobic culture and 4,246 cases (47.0%) in both cultures. The species grown only in the anaerobic cultures consisted of 81.4% facultative anaerobes, 2.0% strict anaerobes, 8.5% strict aerobes, and 8.1% yeasts.CONCLUSION:
Routine use of paired aerobic/anaerobic blood culture is essential because a considerable number of facultative anaerobes and yeasts grow only in anaerobic blood culture. Strict aerobes and fungi were more commonly isolated in the anaerobic bottles than were strict anaerobes.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Yeasts
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Fungemia
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Bacteremia
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Diagnosis
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Fungi
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Adult
/
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Annals of Clinical Microbiology
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
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