ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2022
Routine Use of Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottles for Specimens Collected from Adults and Children Enhances Microorganism Recovery and Improves Time to Positivity.
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Abstract
The utility of anaerobic blood culture bottles remains controversial, especially for specimens from children. Data are limited on the inclusion of an anaerobic bottle as part of a blood culture "set" when using contemporary blood culture instruments and media. Here, we evaluated the clinical utility of anaerobic blood culture bottles (FN Plus) and aerobic bottles (FA Plus) for the BacT/Alert Virtuo blood culture system (bioMérieux). A total of 158,710 bottles collected between November 2018 and October 2019 were evaluated. There were 6,652 positive anaerobic bottles, of which 384 (5.8%) contained 403 obligate anaerobes. In patients <19 years old, there were 389 positive anaerobic bottles, with 15 (1.8%) containing 16 obligate anaerobes. If not for anaerobic bottles, all but 8 obligate anaerobes would have gone undetected. Furthermore, anaerobic bottles were advantageous for some facultative anaerobes. Staphylococcus aureus from anaerobic bottles demonstrated statistically significant increased recovery (1,992 anaerobic versus 1,901 aerobic bottles,
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