Effects of COVID-19 on Blood Culture Contamination at a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has changed health care, from increased needs of personal protective equipment (PPE) to overloaded staff and influxes of patients. Blood cultures are frequently used to detect bloodstream infections in critically ill patients, but it is unknown whether the COVID-19 pan...
Main Authors: | Brianna Sacchetti, Justin Travis, Lisa L. Steed, Ginny Webb |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2022-04-01
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Series: | Microbiology Spectrum |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00277-22 |
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