Influence of a resin-based blood culture medium on the time to clearance of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection - A retrospective cohort study.

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis

Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Biomedicine, University Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Published: September 2019

We evaluated the improved sensitivity and time to detection of new resin-based blood culture (BC) media in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection. We observed a significantly longer duration of bacteremia and shorter time to detection compared to traditional charcoal-based BC media, which may influence diagnostic work-up and treatment duration.

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