The BacT/Alert (Organon Teknika Corp., Durham, NC) is an automated blood culture system.
It is based on the detection of CO2 by means of a colorimetric sensor internally attached to …

Bottles developed for use in the BacT/Alert automated blood culture system (Organon
Teknika Corp., Durham, NC) can accept up to 10 ml of blood without falling below a 1: 5 ratio …

The BACTEC 9240 (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, Md.) automated blood culture system is
based on the continuous monitoring of CO2 production by means of a fluorescent sensor …

During a 1-year study we observed that both aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles
from patients were negative by the BacT/Alert system during a 7-day incubation period …

AIMS--To analyse a continuously monitoring blood culture system with respect to the time to
detection of various groups of organisms, their clinical importance, and the relative efficacy …

The BACTEC 9240 (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Instrument Systems, Sparks, Md.) is a new
continuous-monitoring blood culture system that uses internal, fluorescent-CO2 sensors. In a …

oasis (Unipath Ltd., Basingstoke, United Kingdom) is a new automated blood culture system.
The metabolism of microorganisms is detected by measuring changes in the pressure of the …

BacT/Alert (Organon Teknika Corp., Durham, NC) is an automated microbial detection
system based on the colorimetric detection of CO2 produced by growing microorganisms …

ABSTRACT A 20-ml blood sample was collected from adult patients with suspected
bloodstream infections and distributed equally into the four volume-controlled bottles of a …

The BACTEC 9240 (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, Md.) automated blood culture system is
based on the continuous monitoring of CO2 production by means of a fluorescent sensor …