1148. Reduction of Blood Culture Contamination Rates by an Altered Sampling Protocol: Single-Center, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Open-Label Trial

BACKGROUND: Contaminated blood cultures remain a challenge for patients, physicians, and microbiology laboratories, often leading to unnecessary antibiotic treatment. One approach to reduce contamination is to avoid culturing the initial blood sample that can contain a contaminated plug of skin from...

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Autores principales: Strahilevitz, Jacob, Svinik, Or, Lalezari, Alon, Tel-Zur, Odaya, Sinvani, Shlomo, Al-Dayem, Yasmin Sa’id Abed, Moses, Allon, Cohen, Matan, Oster, Yonatan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253253/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.981

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