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. 1992 Dec;30(12):3239–3242. doi: 10.1128/jcm.30.12.3239-3242.1992

Value of extended agitation and subculture of BACTEC NR 660 aerobic resin blood culture bottles for clinical yeast isolates.

E Prevost-Smith 1, N Hutton 1
PMCID: PMC270640  PMID: 1452708

Abstract

From 10,351 blood cultures, we prospectively studied 1,000 BACTEC NR 660 aerobic resin blood culture bottles (26+ and Peds Plus) for patients suspected of having yeast septicemia to determine whether extended agitation and subculturing would increase the recovery of yeasts. Aerobic bottles were agitated continuously for 144 h. On day 7, 1,000 culture-negative aerobic bottles which had fungal blood culture requests were agitated for an additional 14 days. During this time they were subcultured twice and read twice by BACTEC NR 660. ON days 1 to 7, 81 bottles were cultured positive for yeasts from 36 patients, which included 44 isolates of Candida albicans, averaging 1.4 days to detection, and 12 isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans, averaging 3.8 days to detection. The average detection time for all yeasts was 2.2 days. On days 7 to 21, no yeasts were detected by BACTEC or recovered from the subcultures. We conclude that when continuously agitated for at least 5 full days (120 h), the BACTEC NR 660 aerobic resin bottles reliably isolate yeasts, and it is unnecessary to subculture or hold these bottles beyond 5 days. It also eliminates the need for an additional blood culture system for yeast detection, thus saving (i) confusion in the collection process, (ii) patients' blood and money, and (iii) laboratory technologists' time.

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