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Controlled Evaluation of the New BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System for Detection and Time to Detection of Bacteria and Yeasts
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Controlled Evaluation of the New BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System for Detection and Time to Detection of Bacteria and Yeasts

Osman Altun, Mohammed Almuhayawi, Petra Lüthje, Rubina Taha, Måns Ullberg and Volkan Özenci
Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.54(4), pp.1148-1151
01/04/2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03362-15
PMCID: PMC4809908
PMID: 26842707

Abstract

Bacteremia - diagnosis Bacteria - isolation & purification Blood Culture - methods Fungemia - diagnosis Humans Sensitivity and Specificity Time Factors Yeasts - isolation & purification
We compared the newly approved BacT/Alert Virtuo blood culture system to the BacT/Alert 3D system using 115 clinical bacterial and fungal isolates in 784 simulated blood culture bottles. The time to detection was reduced by roughly 20% in the Virtuo system (P< 0.0001) while the detection rate did not differ.
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