Microbial recovery from clot-activating Vacutainers®

Shangxin Yang; Ian Howard Mchardy; Peera Hemarajata; Max T. Wu; Omai B. Garner

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.05.015

Microbial recovery from clot-activating Vacutainers®

Shangxin Yang, Ian Howard Mchardy, Peera Hemarajata, Max T. Wu, Omai B. Garner

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

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Abstract

Biological specimens for microbiological analysis are often collected in BD Vacutainers®, which are not specifically designed for microbial recovery. Bacterial and fungal recovery was analyzed for glass and plastic tubes with or without clot-activating silica. No significant impact was found for the recovery of most bacteria and yeasts tested, however, Haemophilus influenzae recovery from cerebrospinal fluid was significantly reduced in both glass and plastic clot activator tubes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	395-397
Number of pages	3
Journal	Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Volume	85
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.05.015
State	Published - Aug 1 2016

Keywords

Bacterial recovery
BD Vacutainers
Clinical microbiology

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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