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Impact of delays to incubation and storage temperature on blood culture results: a multi-centre study
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Background Blood cultures are one of the most important tests performed by microbiology laboratories. Many hospitals, particularly in low and middle-income countries, lack either microbiology services or staff to provide 24 h services resulting in delays to blood culture incubation. There is insufficient guidance on how to transport/store blood cultures if delays before incubation are unavoidable, particularly if ambient temperatures are high. This study set out to address th... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 173
- Publication date:
- 2021-02-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2334
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1161230
- Local pid:
- pubs:1161230
- Deposit date:
- 2021-02-14
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- CL Ling et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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