BLOOD CULTURE

What are the critical steps in processing blood cultures? A prospective audit evaluating current practice of reporting blood cultures in a centralised laboratory serving secondary care hospitals
Manjula Meda, James Clayton, Reela Varghese, Jayakeerthi Rangaiah, Clive Grundy, Farnaz Dashti, David Garner, Katherine Groves, Karen Fitzmaurice, E Hutley

Journal of Clinical Pathology Apr 2017, 70 (4) 361-366; DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2016-204091
Rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of positive blood cultures using MALDI-TOF MS and a modification of the standardised disc diffusion test: a pilot study
C Fitzgerald, P Stapleton, E Phelan, P Mulhare, B Carey, M Hickey, B Lynch, M Doyle

Journal of Clinical Pathology Nov 2016, 69 (11) 1025-1032; DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2015-203436
Effects of α-thalassaemia mutations on the haematological parameters of β-thalassaemia carriers
Nasrollah Saleh-Gohari, Maryam Khademi Bami, Roya Nikbakht, Hassan Karimi-Maleh

Journal of Clinical Pathology Jul 2015, 68 (7) 562-566; DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202825
In the era of the 24 h laboratory, does communicating Gram stain results from blood cultures flagging positive outside of conventional working hours alter patient management?
Jonathan S Moore, Roland J Koerner

Journal of Clinical Pathology Nov 2015, 68 (11) 938-941; DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2015-203035

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