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An estimate for the source of coagulase-negative staphylococci in blood cultures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

M. J. Haverkorn  and
M. J. Staal
M. J. Haverkorn
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Medical Microbiology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
M. J. Staal
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Medical Microbiology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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An estimate for the source of coagulase-negative staphylococci in blood cultures is presented and its use illustrated in two populations. The method estimates the probability that a positive blood culture is positive due to contamination and the probability of it being positive due to bacteraemia. The effect of changes in efficiency of the blood culture technique on these estimates is demonstrated. One of the illustrative populations consists of 537 sample pairs from 273 patients, taken after open-heart surgery in 1978–80. The other consists of 500 consecutive sample pairs taken in one of two hospitals in 1983–4.

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Research Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , October 1987 , pp. 333 - 341
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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