Controlled Evaluation of the New BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System for Detection and Time to Detection of Bacteria and Yeasts
Open Access
- 1 April 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 54 (4) , 1148-1151
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.Keywords
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