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Lack of correlation between bacillary growth in 72-h whole blood cultures and that in 24-h BACTEC cultures. Each symbol represents the median of two replicate cultures in broth (horizontal axis) and two replicate whole blood cultures for each of six subjects (vertical axis). Recent clinical isolates are indicated with open circles, and reference strains are indicated with filled circles.
