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249. Limited Diagnostic Utility of Extended Aerobic Blood Culture Incubation for Fungal Pathogen Detection

BACKGROUND: Blood cultures are an important diagnostic tool for the detection of fungemia. At our institution, fungal blood cultures consist of aerobic blood culture with incubation extended from the standard 5 days to 14 days. Orders for fungal blood cultures exist in multiple electronic order sets...

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Autores principales: Bourassa, Lori, Kates, Olivia, Liu, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810314/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.324