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Blood culture contaminants
Grouped by gram negative vs gram positive vs other as well as never/maybe/probably
Some additional
Blood culture contaminants ... negative vs gram positive ... @swinndong via Febrile ... febrilepodcast] #ID ... #bcx #contaminant
How to Determine a Contaminant vs True Infection 

What is the organism? Most 
common contaminants:
vs True Infection ... ) How many blood ... culture sets are positive ... #Contamination ... #Diagnosis #BCx
Guide to Interpretation of Positive Blood Cultures

I arrange the potential Gram stain results that one can
Interpretation of Positive ... Blood Cultures ... BloodCultures #BCx ... #Contaminant #Contamination ... #Microbiology #Diagnosis
Duke's Criteria for Infective Endocarditis
Definite IE - Pathologic Criteria:
 • Pathologic lesions - vegetation or intracardiac
Duke's Criteria for Infective ... phenomena • Micro: + bcxs ... @swinndong via Febrile ... Duke #criteria #Infective ... #Endocarditis #diagnosis
Fungal Biomarkers: Beta-D-Glucan and Aspergillus Galactomannan
Beta-D-Glucan:
 • Polysaccharide cell wall component of many fungi
 • Pathogens:
invasive fungal infection ... albumin, or other blood ... translocation) - Contamination ... setting of GVHD) ID ... Galactomannan #diagnosis