Biphasic versus monophasic manual blood culture bottles for low-resource settings: an in-vitro study
September 13, 2022
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Bacteriology
The yield of manual BCB was comparable with the automated system, suggesting that manual blood culture systems are an acceptable alternative to automated systems in low-resource settings. Bi-State BCB outperformed manual BacT/ALERT bottles, but the agar slant did not allow earlier detection nor earlier colony growth. Time to detection for manual blood culture systems still lags that of automated systems, and research into innovative and affordable methods of growth detection in manual BCBs is encouraged.
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Media preparation
Reception and incubation
Work-up of grown blood cultures
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