Blood culture symposium

A Symposium on the Blood and Blood-Forming Organs

New blood culture medium.

A growth medium with a specific oxidation-reduction potential containing peptone, dextrose, sodium succinate, sodium lactate, gelatin, sodium bicarbonate and blue tetrazolium, an indicator dye, in a tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane buffer was used to detect the presence of microorganisms in blood. The procedure involved the introduction of blood (and bacteria) into the growth medium with the dye...

Blood Culture in Cholera

The blood was collected as early as possible after onset of symptoms. In two patients the blood was collected 3 hours after onset, in four 4 hours, in four 5 hours, in five 7 hours and in five 9 hours. In twenty of the patients therefore the blood was collected within 9 hours of the onset of symptoms, in the remaining six after longer periods. Approximately 5 c.cm. 9 blood was withdrawn under t...

Blood culture-negative endocarditis

Blood culture-negative endocarditis (BCNE) may represent up to 70% of all endocarditis cases, depending on series. From 2001 to 2009, we implemented in our laboratory a multimodal diagnostic strategy for BCNE that included systematized testing of blood, and when available, valvular biopsy specimens using serological, broad range molecular, and histopathological assays. A causative microorganism...

The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture,’ Tübingen, Germany

T book is the result of an interdisciplinary symposium held in 2011 to explore the role that culture played in early human expansions. The symposium had two goals: first, to develop a unified theory of cultural evolution from data collected from great apes, sea mammals, and birds; and, second, to examine the nature of culture as defined by the social sciences and humanities. The evolution of cu...