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Amniotic cavity cultures, blood cultures, and surface swabs in preterm infants – useful tools for the management of early-onset sepsis?

Aims: To evaluate the potential benefit of amniotic fluid and amniotic/placental membrane cultures for the management of early-onset sepsis in preterm infants.

Methods: The results of amniotic cavity cultures obtained during cesarean section and of peripheral blood cultures and surface swabs obtained from the preterm infant at the time of admission were analyzed with respect to the diagnosis of clinical sepsis in 221 preterm infants <34 weeks of gestation.

Results: 136 (61.5%) patients had negative amniotic cavity culture results or growth of contaminants, 56 (25.3%) had growth of Ureaplasma urealyticum, and 29 (13.1%) of other pathogens...

Keywords: Amniotic cavity culture, blood culture, early-onset sepsis, preterm infant, surface swab

09/2004 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Rapid methods for diagnosis of bloodstream infections

Direct detection technologies for pathogenic microorganisms are emerging to be applied in the diagnosis of serious bloodstream infections and infections at sterile body sites, as well as for quality control measures prior to the release of sterile blood products and to ascertain microbial safety of food...

Keywords: bacteraemia, blood culture, flow cytometry, hybridisation, matrix-assisted laser-desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF), microarray, microbial food safety, nucleic acid-based technology (NAT), nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA), PCR, proteomic profiling, sepsis

07/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter