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February 4, 2016Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyOpen Access

Controlled Evaluation of the New BacT/Alert Virtuo Blood Culture System for Detection and Time to Detection of Bacteria and Yeasts

Osman Altun Mohammed S. Almuhayawi Petra Lüthje Rubina Taha Måns Ullberg Volkan Özenci

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Abstract

We compared the newly approved BacT/Alert Virtuo blood culture system to the BacT/Alert 3D system using 115 clinical bacterial and fungal isolates in 784 simulated blood culture bottles. The time to detection was reduced by roughly 20% in the Virtuo system (P< 0.0001) while the detection rate did not differ.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6ad669033e36b8d30a473144 https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.03362-15

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