Utility of time to positivity for diagnosis of bloodstream infection

• DOI: 10.1097/mrm.0b013e328342ceaa
• Publication Date: 2012-01-31T11:06:19Z
• Authors: Jin-Ya Ding; Pei Wang
• Keywords: Bloodstream infection; Antibiotic Therapy; Bacteremia; Blood Culture

Since bacteraemia and sepsis often result in death, rapid detection identification of the pathogens, as well prompt discrimination true infection from contamination could lead to reduction morbidity mortality. After confirmative diagnosis bloodstream infection, judging potential source, predicting clinical outcome mortality risk, monitoring adequacy antibiotic therapy are all beneficial a better patients with infections. Time positivity (TTP) can be defined amount time required for organism grow blood culture data have showed that TTP used valuable aid infections may influence choice empirical therapy.