Comparison of four different methods of smear preparation for Gram staining of positively flagged automated blood culture bottles

Comparison of four different methods of smear preparation for Gram staining of positively flagged automated blood culture bottles

Introduction: Gram staining of smears prepared from positively flagged blood culture bottles plays a vital role because its accurate interpretation helps the clinicians to modify empirical therapy as well as to perform the direct susceptibility test, which reduces the turnaround time by 24 h to init...

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Main Authors: Jyoti Nain, R Deepashree, Pratibha Tamang, Prasanna Bhat, Suman Prakash, R Sneha, T Kalpana, G Anitha, Apurba Sankar Sastry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Current Research in Scientific Medicine
Subjects:
Blood culture
blood film method
conventional method
drop and rest method
Gram stain
water-wash method
Online Access:http://www.jcrsmed.org/article.asp?issn=2455-3069;year=2018;volume=4;issue=2;spage=98;epage=103;aulast=Nain

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