Traditionally, a routine blood culture for adult patients consisted of paired aerobic and
anaerobic bottles, but the routine use of an anaerobic blood culture bottle has been …

Standard aerobic media are widely used for culturing blood with the BacT/ALERT
(BioMérieux, Inc., Durham, NC)(BM) and BACTEC 9240 (BD Diagnostic Systems, Sparks …

A total of 6517 aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures were tested for bacteria using Bactec
Plus/F aerobic and anaerobic vials, with resins. 1097 were positive (16.8%) and the most …

BACKGROUND: This study was designed to evaluate the performance of FAN-aerobic
bottles (FANA) in comparison with standard-aerobic bottles (STD-A) in BacT/Alert3D blood …

Blood culture is the most valuable laboratory test for the diagnosis of bacteremia and sepsis.
The BACTEC FX and BacT/Alert 3D automated blood culture systems are commonly used in …

A new medium, FAN, designed to enhance the recovery of microorganisms, has been
developed for the BacT/Alert blood culture system (Organon Teknika Corp., Durham, NC) …

Objective: To compare the detection capability of two kinds of aerobic bottles and anaerobic
bottles at clinical random specimens. Method: Selecting 4 clinical departments (Department …

Objective To evaluate the clinical performance of the BACTEC Plus aerobic, BACTEC Lytic
anaerobic, BacT/Alert aerobic and anaerobic blood culture media in detection of …

The performance of 3 blood culture bottles (BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F, Plus Anaerobic/F, and
Anaerobic Lytic/F) were analyzed with clinical specimens collected from 688 Emergency …