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Blood is normally sterile. [1] The presence of bacteria in the blood is termed bacteremia, and the presence of fungi is called fungemia. [2] Minor damage to the skin [3] or mucous membranes, which can occur in situations like toothbrushing or defecation, [4] [5] can introduce bacteria into the bloodstream, but this bacteremia is normally transient and is rarely detected in cultures because the ...
The stool guaiac test involves fasting from iron supplements, red meat (the blood it contains can turn the test positive), certain vegetables (which contain a chemical with peroxidase properties that can turn the test positive), and vitamin C and citrus fruits (which can turn the test falsely negative) for a period of time before the test.
Bacteremia is most commonly diagnosed by blood culture, in which a sample of blood drawn from the vein by needle puncture is allowed to incubate with a medium that promotes bacterial growth. [33] If bacteria are present in the bloodstream at the time the sample is obtained, the bacteria will multiply and can thereby be detected. [citation needed]
Inoculating from a broth culture is not recommended because the inoculum would be too heavy. If the organism has the ability to use citrate, the medium usually changes its color from green to blue, though growth on the medium even without colour change is considered a positive result. [1] An observation of no growth is a negative result.
A vacutainer blood collection tube is a sterile glass or plastic test tube with a colored rubber stopper creating a vacuum seal inside of the tube, facilitating the drawing of a predetermined volume of liquid. Vacutainer tubes may contain additives designed to stabilize and preserve the specimen prior to analytical testing.
Here "T+" or "T−" denote that the result of the test is positive or negative, respectively. Likewise, " D +" or " D −" denote that the disease is present or absent, respectively. So "true positives" are those that test positive ( T +) and have the disease ( D +), and "false positives" are those that test positive ( T +) but do not have the ...
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A fibrin clot formed in a test tube by the coagulase reaction. The tube test uses rabbit plasma that has been inoculated with a staphylococcal colony (i.e., Gram-positive cocci which are catalase positive). The tube is then incubated at 37 °C for 1.5 hours. If negative, then incubation is continued up to 18 hours.