Impact of delays to incubation and storage temperature on blood culture results: a multi-centre study

BACKGROUND: Blood cultures are one of the most important tests performed by microbiology laboratories. Many hospitals, particularly in low and middle-income countries, lack either microbiology services or staff to provide 24 h services resulting in delays to blood culture incubation. There is insuff...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC Infectious Diseases 2021-02, Vol.21 (1)
Hauptverfasser: Ling, Clare L, Roberts, Tamalee, Soeng, Sona, Cusack, Tomas-Paul, Dance, David AB, Lee, Sue J, Reed, Thomas AN, Hinfonthong, Pattaraporn, Sihalath, Somsavanh, Sengduangphachanh, Amphone, Watthanaworawit, Wanitda, Wangrangsimakul, Tri, Newton, Paul N, Nosten, Francois H, Turner, Paul, Ashley, Elizabeth A
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Zusammenfassung:BACKGROUND: Blood cultures are one of the most important tests performed by microbiology laboratories. Many hospitals, particularly in low and middle-income countries, lack either microbiology services or staff to provide 24 h services resulting in delays to blood culture incubation. There is insufficient guidance on how to transport/store blood cultures if delays before incubation are unavoidable, particularly if ambient temperatures are high. This study set out to address this knowledge gap. METHODS: In three South East Asian countries, four different blood culture systems (two manual and two automated) were used to test blood cultures spiked with five common bacterial pathogens. Prior to incubation the spiked blood culture bottles were stored at different temperatures (25 °C, in a cool-box at ambient temperature, or at 40 °C) for different lengths of time (0 h, 6 h, 12 h or 24 h). The impacts of these different storage conditions on positive blood culture yield and on time to positivity were examined. RESULTS: There was no significant loss in yield when blood cultures were stored
DOI:10.1186/s12879-021-05872-8