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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2007, p. 1357-1359, Vol. 45, No. 4
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.02091-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Controlled Clinical Comparison of BacT/ALERT Standard Aerobic and Standard Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottles Inoculated Directly or after Transport in Sodium Polyanethol Sulfonate Tubes{triangledown}

Brian C. Pien,1,2 Stanley Mirrett,1 Betty R. Crews,2 L. Barth Reller,1,3,4 and Christopher W. Woods2,3,4*

Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Duke University Medical Center,1 Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center,2 Departments of Pathology,3 Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina4

Received 11 October 2006/ Returned for modification 29 November 2006/ Accepted 22 January 2007

To assess relative performances in the BacT/ALERT blood culture system, we compared results from the direct inoculation of standard media and inoculation after the transport of blood samples in Vacutainer tubes with sodium polyanethol sulfonate. No significant differences in yields or times to detection were found for 387 clinically important isolates from 4,306 blood culture sets.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Durham VA Medical Center, Section 113, 508 Fulton St., Durham, NC 27705. Phone: (919) 286-0411, ext. 6681. Fax: (919) 684-8519. E-mail: woods004{at}mc.duke.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 31 January 2007.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2007, p. 1357-1359, Vol. 45, No. 4
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.02091-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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