Journal:
:jundishapur journal of microbiology
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mustafa altindis department of clinical microbiology, faculty of medicine, sakarya university, sakarya, turkey; department of clinical microbiology, faculty of medicine, sakarya university, sakarya, turkey. tel: +90-2642957277, fax: +90-2642956629
mehmet koroglu department of clinical microbiology, faculty of medicine, sakarya university, sakarya, turkey
tayfur demiray department of clinical microbiology, training and research hospital, sakarya university, sakarya, turkey
tuba dal department of clinical microbiology, school of medicine, yildirim beyazit university, ankara, turkey
mehmet ozdemir department of clinical microbiology, meram medical faculty hospital, necmettin erbakan university, konya, turkey
ahmet zeki sengil department of medical microbiology, medical faculty, medipol university, istanbul, turkey
background the prognostic value of blood culture testing in the diagnosis of bacteremia is limited by contamination. objectives in this multicenter study, the aim was to evaluate the contamination rates of blood cultures as well as the parameters that affect the culture results. materials and methods sample collection practices and culture data obtained from 16 university/research hospitals wer...