No need for costly “specialty” media - DILUTION WORKS!
Just look at the recent Duke Study presented at the 2005 ECCMID Meeting in Copenhagen, Demark:
Controlled
Clinical Comparison of VersaTREK® versus BacT/Alert® Blood Culture Systems
Here are
the facts:
• The VersaTREK System detected significantly (P<0.025) more isolates from patients on antimicrobial
therapy prior to blood collection due to DILUTION! VersaTREK detected significantly more Streptococcus
and Enterococcus spp. versus the BacT/ALERT 3D (P<0.05)
•
When all samples were considered where four bottles were received there was a trend to significance
for VersaTREK for S. aureus and Anaerobes.
•
233 clinically significant positive cultures were detected three hours faster in the aerobic bottle
due to VersaTREK’s unique VorTrexing™ agitation.
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