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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Abstract

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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C.-A. D. Burnham: Role: Editor

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Clin Microbiol

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Clin. Microbiol

Journal ID (hwp): jcm

Journal ID (pmc): jcm

Journal ID (publisher-id): JCM

Title: Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Publisher: American Society for Microbiology (1752 N St., N.W., Washington, DC )

ISSN (Print): 0095-1137

ISSN (Electronic): 1098-660X

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 3 February 2016

Publication date (Electronic): 25 March 2016

Publication date (Print): April 2016

Volume: 54

Issue: 4

Pages: 1148-1151

Affiliations

[a ]Division of Clinical Microbiology F 72, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

[b ]Florida State University, College of Medicine, CoM Pediatric Residency Program, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

[c ]King Abdul-Aziz University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Address correspondence to Osman Altun, osman.altun@ 123456ki.se .

Citation Altun O, Almuhayawi M, Lüthje P, Taha R, Ullberg M, Özenci V. 2016. Controlled evaluation of the new BacT/Alert Virtuo blood culture system for detection and time to detection of bacteria and yeasts. J Clin Microbiol 54:1148–1151. doi: 10.1128/JCM.03362-15.

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Accession ID: PMC4809908 Pmcid ID: PMC4809908 Pmc-uid ID: 4809908 Publisher ID: 03362-15

DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03362-15

PMC ID: 4809908

PubMed ID: 26842707

SO-VID: 2c73a9e1-6990-4220-862b-1f9b772f3d70

History

Date received : 23 December 2015

Date revision requested : 2 January 2016

Date accepted : 23 January 2016

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Figures: 1, Tables: 2, Equations: 0, References: 24, Pages: 4, Words: 2811

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