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Abstract
Two blood culturing systems were compared in parallel-a semi-automated radiometric method, BACTEC1, and the conventional method used in our laboratory. BACTEC contains radioactive 14C labelled substrates and monitors the level of 14CO2 evolved by actively metabolizing bacteria. BACTEC was as efficient as the conventional method in detecting positive cultures and indicated that it was superior in detecting positive cultures earlier than the conventional system.Entities:
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Year: 1976 PMID: 939807 PMCID: PMC476111 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.29.6.530
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Pathol ISSN: 0021-9746 Impact factor: 3.411