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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2007, p. 2711-2715, Vol. 45, No. 8
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00059-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Relevance of Routine Use of the Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottle{triangledown}

Patrick Grohs,1,5 Jean-Luc Mainardi,1,3,4,5* Isabelle Podglajen,1,4,5 Xavier Hanras,2,5 C. Eckert,1,4,5 A. Buu-Hoï,1,5 E. Varon,1,5 and Laurent Gutmann1,4,5

AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Service de Microbiologie,1 Département d'Informatique Hospitalière,2 Unité Mobile de Microbiologie Clinique, Paris F-75015, France,3 INSERM, U872, LRMA Pôle 4-Equipe 12, Paris F-75006, France,4 Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine René Descartes, Paris F-75006, France5

Received 8 January 2007/ Returned for modification 23 February 2007/ Accepted 7 June 2007

Using the BacT/Alert automated system, we conducted a 1-year retrospective study on blood cultures, focusing on the relevance of routine use of the anaerobic bottle. The rate of patients with positive blood cultures was 19.7%. Among these, 13.5% had a positive anaerobic bottle in the absence of any aerobic bottle, and 2/3 of these grew with nonobligate anaerobes. These patients were hospitalized in 20 out of 26 wards of the hospital group. For 65.4% of the monomicrobial-positive blood cultures growing Enterobacteriaceae, the anaerobic bottle detected growth earlier than the corresponding aerobic bottle. These data suggest that, in our institution, the use of an anaerobic bottle is still relevant.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, AP-HP Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, Cedex 15, 75908 Paris, France. Phone: 33 1 56 09 39 51. Fax: 33 1 56 09 24 46. E-mail: jlmainar{at}bhdc.jussieu.fr

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 June 2007.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2007, p. 2711-2715, Vol. 45, No. 8
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00059-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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