ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2016
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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- Cost-Effectiveness of Automated Blood Culture Systems: Comparison of BACT/ALERT VIRTUO and BD BACTEC FX from a Provider Perspective.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2026Article
- BacT-Seq, a Nanopore-Based Whole-Genome Sequencing Workflow Prototype for Rapid and Accurate Pathogen Identification and Resistance Prediction from Positive Blood Cultures: A Feasibility Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Comparison of conventional culture and automated blood culture system for microbiologic diagnosis of pleural infection.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Impact of Initial Specimen Diversion Technique on Blood Culture Contamination Rates.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2025Article
- Investigating the time to blood culture positivity: why does it take so long?Journal of medical microbiology · 2025Article
- The Significance of FilmArray Blood Culture Identification Panel (FA-BCID) for Managing Patients with Positive Blood Cultures.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Comparison of new and old BacT/ALERT aerobic bottles for detection of Candida species.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Impact of Implementing the Virtuo Blood Culture System on the Characteristics and Management of Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2022Article
- Considerations in evaluating equipment-free blood culture bottles: A short protocol for use in low-resource settings.PloS one · 2022Article
- Blood Cultures and Molecular Diagnostics in Intensive Care Units to Diagnose Sepsis: A Bayesian Latent Class Model Analysis.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2021Article
- Real-World Evaluation of the Impact of Implementation of the Virtuo Blood Culture System in a Tertiary Care Hospital.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021Article
- Comparison of time-to-positivity between two blood culture systems: a detailed analysis down to the genus-level.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2021Article
- Comparison of Microorganism Detection and Time to Positivity in Pediatric and Standard Media from Three Major Commercial Continuously Monitored Blood Culture Systems.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021Article
- Quality indicators for blood culture: 1 year of monitoring with BacT/Alert Virtuo at a French hospital.Journal of medical microbiology · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Optimal Blood Culture Incubation Time To Maximize Clinically Relevant Results from a Contemporary Blood Culture Instrument and Media System.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021Article
- Time to blood, respiratory and urine culture positivity in the intensive care unit: Implications for de-escalation.SAGE open medicine · 2021Article
- Modern Blood Culture: Management Decisions and Method Options.Clinics in laboratory medicine · 2020Review
- Real-world Time to Positivity of 2 Widely Used Commercial Blood Culture Systems in Patients With Severe Manifestations of Sepsis: An Analysis of the FABLED Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Improving the recovery and detection of bloodstream pathogens from blood culture.Journal of medical microbiology · 2020Article
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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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