Erratum to: Blood culture updated

Updated review of blood culture contamination.

Blood culture contamination represents an ongoing source of frustration for clinicians and microbiologists alike. Ambiguous culture results often lead to diagnostic uncertainty in clinical management and are associated with increased health care costs due to unnecessary treatment and testing. A variety of strategies have been investigated and employed to decrease contamination rates. In additio...

Erratum to: Armentum: a hybrid direct search optimization methodology

In the original publication of this article unfortunately the co-authors were omitted. The two co-authors are displayed now.

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Blood Culture Systems: From Patient to Result

Blood cultures are still considered to be the ‘gold standard’ for the detection of microbial pathogens related to bacteraemia and sepsis despite newer molecular techniques (4, 5). This method allows for microbial identification and susceptibility testing to be performed which is a critical component to managing sepsis, however the lack of rapid results and decreased sensitivity for fastidious p...

Erratum to: An updated genome annotation for the model marine bacterium Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/1944-3277-9-11.].