Correct processing of blood cultures may impact individual patient management, antibiotic stewardship, and scaling up of antimicrobial resistance surveillance. To assess the quality of blood culture processing, we conducted ...

Tuberculosis infection, disease and mortality are all less common at high than low altitude and ascent to high altitude was historically recommended for treatment. The immunological and mycobacterial mechanisms underlying ...

In previous research in Brazil, we tested the hypothesis that cultural consonance is associated with arterial blood pressure. Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals are able to approximate in their own ...

The phenomenon of ‘false’ positive growth triggered by malaria parasites in automated blood culture systems has been reported before in falciparum malaria patients with parasitaemias of 1.8% a 10%. In these reports, aerobic ...

Mediante una metodología cualitativa, se investigan en las cuatro regiones geográficas y epidemiológicas de Colombia y en bancos de sangre privados y públicos, los conocimientos, actitudes, valores y prácticas de la ...

Blood culture is considered the "gold standard" for the diagnosis of bacteremia, critical condition with high morbidity and mortality. Because of its importance, it is estimated that the blood culture is a critical test ...