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Blood culture contaminants
Grouped by gram negative vs gram positive vs other as well as never/maybe/probably
Some additional
negative vs gram positive ... @swinndong via Febrile ... febrilepodcast] #ID ... Differential #Ddx #Diagnosis ... Bloodculture #Bloodcx #bcx
Guide to Interpretation of Positive Blood Cultures

I arrange the potential Gram stain results that one can
Interpretation of Positive ... 1) Number of positive ... Fewer positive cultures ... BloodCultures #BCx ... #Microbiology #Diagnosis
Serious Bacterial Illness (SBI):
1) UTI and pyelonephritis
Most common cause of SBI
Accounts for 3-8% of uncharacterized fevers
Female
uncharacterized fevers ... circumcised Consider BCx ... particularly complex febrile ... #Peds #EM #Classification ... #Fever #SBI #SeriousBacterialIllness
Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
- Persistently positive ... Predisposition • Fever ... phenomena • Micro: + bcxs ... @swinndong via Febrile ... #Endocarditis #diagnosis