"Blood Culture" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Test to determine the presence of blood infection (e.g. SEPSIS; BACTEREMIA).
| Descriptor ID |
D000071997
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.875.185 E05.200.875.185
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| Concept/Terms |
Blood Culture- Blood Culture
- Blood Cultures
- Culture, Blood
- Cultures, Blood
- Blood Culture Test
- Blood Culture Tests
- Culture Test, Blood
- Culture Tests, Blood
- Test, Blood Culture
- Tests, Blood Culture
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blood Culture" by people in Profiles.
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Diagnostic accuracy of the BioFire FilmArray blood culture identification panel when used in critically ill patients with sepsis. J Microbiol Methods. 2021 10; 189:106303.
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Epidemiology of Culture-confirmed Candidemia Among Hospitalized Children in South Africa, 2012-2017. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 08 01; 40(8):730-737.
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Clinical utility of the BioFire FilmArray Blood Culture Identification panel in the adjustment of empiric antimicrobial therapy in the critically ill septic patient. PLoS One. 2021; 16(7):e0254389.
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Diversity of SCCmec elements and spa types in South African Staphylococcus aureus mecA-positive blood culture isolates. BMC Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 10; 20(1):816.
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Surveillance and comparison of antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of ESKAPE organisms isolated from patients with bacteraemia in South Africa, 2016 - 2017. S Afr Med J. 2019 Nov 27; 109(12):934-940.
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Unconventional SCCmec types and low prevalence of the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin exotoxin in South African blood culture Staphylococcus aureus surveillance isolates, 2013-2016. PLoS One. 2019; 14(11):e0225726.
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Surveillance for incidence and etiology of early-onset neonatal sepsis in Soweto, South Africa. PLoS One. 2019; 14(4):e0214077.