Diagnostic performance of the time to positivity of blood cultures to distinguish true bacteremia from contaminants based on an automated system.

Aracely Laque-Ale Miguel Hueda Zavaleta Juan Carlos Gómez de la Torre Luis Alvarado José Alonso Cáceres-DelAguila

Published in: Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica (2024)

Our results show good diagnostic performance of blood culture positivity times to differentiate true bacteremia from contaminants using the "BACT/ALERT®" system when the positivity time was longer than 16.5 hours.

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