title: Recovery of yeast from vented blood culture bottles.
abstract: Rates of isolation of yeasts from blood cultures were significantly enhanced by venting vacuum blood culture bottles in studies of both stimulated and patients' blood cultures; however, the time interval to detection of positivity of yeasts in the clinical studies was significantly (P less than 0.01) shorter in a vented bottle with biphasic brain heart infusion medium than in a vented bottle with soybean-casein digest broth. The mean time intervals to detection of positivity were 2.6 days in the former and 5.2 days in the latter.
mesh_terms: D000388:Air; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology*; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003470:Culture Media; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D015003:Yeasts / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media