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[The number of blood culture bottle sets and the clinical significance of Staphylococcus spp. isolated from the blood culture].

Shigemi S Kondo, Shigeki S Misawa, Toyoko T Oguri, Toshihiko T Yamada, Akimichi A Ohsaka, and Takashi T Miida

Rinsho Byori 58(5):437-41 (2010) PMID 20560452

We investigated the numbers of blood culture and percentage for 2 or more sets in last 3 years, and analyzed the positive blood culture rates based on culture set drawing in 2007. It is considered indispensable to collect two or more sets of blood culture in order to raise positive rates and discrimination ability. However, the papers which studied discrimination ability are rare; we investigated the relation of number of sets and discrimination ability in the case of Staphylococcus spp. isolated from the blood culture bottle.

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