Abstract
We evaluated the BacT/Alert ® Microbial Detection System (Organon Teknika Corporation, Durham, NC, USA) by using FAN bottles compared to conventional culture methods for the recovery of microorganisms from normally sterile body fluids other than blood and dialysates. Clinically significant pathogens were isolated from 116 (11%) of 1,099 consecutive specimens (80 from both conventional media and FAN bottles; 23 from FAN bottles only; 13 from conventional media only). Gram-positive cocci were more likely to be recovered from FAN bottles than from conventional media ( p = 0.04). Contaminants were also more likely to have grown in FAN bottles (3%) than on conventional media (1%) ( p = 0.04). The mean time to detection of significant pathogens was 20.9 h using FAN bottles as compared to 30.9 h using conventional media ( p = 0.0001). These results indicate that the BacT/Alert ® Microbial Detection System using FAN blood culture bottles improves the yield of clinically significant Gram-positive isolates from normally sterile body fluids with a reduced time to detection.
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