Controlled Clinical Comparison of Plastic versus Glass Bottles of BacT/ALERT PF Medium for Culturing Blood from Children
AUTOR(ES)
Petti, Cathy A.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The plastic pediatric BacT/ALERT (bioMérieux, Durham, N.C.) PF (PPF) is a new nonvented aerobic culture medium in a clear plastic bottle designed to prevent breakage. We compared the performance of the new PPF bottle to that of the present glass BacT/ALERT PF bottle for the recovery of microorganisms as well as for the time to detection of growth in samples of blood obtained for culture from children. We found that the PPF and PF bottles were comparable for recovery of microorganisms and that the safety advantage of plastic bottles can be achieved without compromising performance.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=540155Documentos Relacionados
- Controlled Clinical Comparison of BacT/ALERT Standard Aerobic Medium with BACTEC Standard Aerobic Medium for Culturing Blood
- Controlled Comparison of Original Vented Aerobic FAN Medium with New Nonvented BacT/ALERT FA Medium for Culturing Blood
- Controlled evaluation of 5 versus 10 milliliters of blood cultured in aerobic BacT/Alert blood culture bottles.
- Controlled Clinical Comparison of the BacT/ALERT FN and the Standard Anaerobic SN Blood Culture Medium
- Controlled Comparison of BacT/ALERT FAN Aerobic Medium and BACTEC Fungal Blood Culture Medium for Detection of Fungemia
