Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection.

BACKGROUND: Pleural infection is common, and has a >30% major morbidity and mortality-particularly when infection is caused by Gram-negative, Staphylococcus aureus or mixed aerobic pathogens. Standard pleural fluid culture is negative in ∼40% of cases. Culturing pleural fluid in blood culture...

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Päätekijät: Menzies, S, Rahman, N, Wrightson, J, Davies, H, Shorten, R, Gillespie, S, Davies, C, Maskell, N, Jeffrey, A, Lee, Y, Davies, R
Aineistotyyppi: Journal article
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: 2011