Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of the Fifty-Milliliter Vacutainer Blood Culture Tube
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 2 (2) , 99-103
Abstract
The efficacy of the 50-ml vacutainer culture tube (Becton-Dickinson) for recovery of microorganisms from blood cultures was compared with laboratory-prepared blood culture media. The isolation of Bacteroides sp. was significantly higher in the 50-ml vacutainer culture tube whereas that of nonfermenting gram-negative rods and yeasts was higher in the in-house media. There was no significant difference in the recovery of all other organisms.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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