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Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection
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Background: Pleural infection is common, and has a >30% major morbidity and mortality - particularly when infection is caused by Gram-negative, Staphylococcus aureus or mixed aerobic pathogens. Standard pleural fluid culture is negative in ∼40% of cases. Culturing pleural fluid in blood culture bottles may increase microbial yield, and is cheap and easy to perform. Objectives: To determine whether inoculating pleural fluid into blood culture bottles increases the culture positivity of pleu...
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- Journal:
- Thorax
- Volume:
- 66
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 658-662
- Publication date:
- 2011-08-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-3296
- ISSN:
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0040-6376
- Source identifiers:
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170352
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- English
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