Table 1.

Percentage increase for nonconditional pathogens recovered related to the volume of blood cultured

Blood vol (ml)	Increase (%) in nonconditional pathogens recovered in a culture vol of:
	20 ml	30 ml	40 ml	50 ml	60 ml
10	25.3	35.4	47.7	57.6	63.9
20		8.1	17.9	25.8	30.7
30			9.1	16.4	21.0
40				6.7	10.9
50					4.0