Bookedited by Wm. Michael Dunne, Jr., bioMérieux, Inc. Durham, North Carolina,
... Show More Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, Duke University School of School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and Carey-Ann Burnham, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Contents:
Historical perspectives on the art and science of blood culture
Conventional blood culture methods
Lysis-centrifugation methods of blood culture
Bactec blood culture systems
The bioMerieux BacT/alert: automation at last in the black box
TREK blood culture systems
Molecular methods for detection of pathogens directly from blood specimens
Pediatric blood cultures
Epidemiology of bloodstream infections
Best practices in blood cultures
Processing positive cultures
Fungal and mycobacterial blood cultures
The bacterial blood microbiota/microbiome
Postmortem blood culture.