Comparison of BacT/Alert FAN and FAN plus bottles with conventional medium for culturing cerebrospinal fluid

In Young Yoo; Sejong Chun; Dong Joon Song; Hee Jae Huh; Nam Yong Lee

doi:10.1128/JCM.01147-16

Comparison of BacT/Alert FAN and FAN plus bottles with conventional medium for culturing cerebrospinal fluid

In Young Yoo
, Sejong Chun
, Dong Joon Song
, Hee Jae Huh
, Nam Yong Lee

Department of Laboratory Medicine

Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan university

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We compared the BacT/Alert system FAN and FAN Plus media to conventional media for culturing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with 2,545 samples. FAN/FAN Plus bottles showed better performance for isolating microorganisms in CSF than conventional media (positive rate, 7.2% [182/2,545] versus 3.1% [80/2,545]). The incremental recovery rate of Cryptococcus neoformans from FAN Plus bottles was higher than that from FAN bottles.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2837-2840
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	54
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01147-16
State	Published - Nov 2016

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