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Blood Cultures Part 2

• Blood culture bottles • Blood cultures are

contain culture media, usually ordered STAT

which enhances the • Collected in sets of two

growth of the or three

microorganisms
• Each set is collected

• Septicemia is the presence from different sites at

of microorganisms in the different time intervals

blood with symptoms that

can result in death

One sample will be incubated as an anaerobic specimen and

the other as an aerobic specimen