title: Evaluation of an Antimicrobial Removal Device (ARD) for detection of septicemia.
abstract: An Antimicrobial Removal Device (ARD) shown to inactivate 13 commonly used antimicrobial agents was used for processing blood samples before culture and compared with a conventional biphasic blood culture medium. 448 blood samples were processed using the ARD bottle with 472 parallel conventional cultures. The rates of clinically significant positive blood cultures were 6.9% and 8.9% respectively (not statistically significant). This study does not show any increased detection rate in ARD-processed cultures compared with conventional cultures in patients receiving antimicrobial agents.
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000097:blood / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents