The use of a radiometric technic for the rapid detection of contaminated tissue specimens from burned patients

O. V. Martinez; T. I. Malinin; C. G. Ward

doi:10.1093/ajcp/74.3.319

The use of a radiometric technic for the rapid detection of contaminated tissue specimens from burned patients

O. V. Martinez, T. I. Malinin, C. G. Ward

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Abstract

The ¹⁴CO₂-dependent BACTEC® system for the detection of bacteria in fluid specimens was adapted for the semiquantitative bacteriologic screening of solid tissue samples from 33 burned patients. The radiometric system detected 87% of all specimens harboring >10⁵ organisms per gram of tissue and 100% of all heavily contaminated specimens (>10⁸ organisms per gram) within eight hours of incubation. The BACTEC radiometric system correlated well (98.1%) with conventional culture methods in the detection of all contamined samples. No false-positive result was obtained from sterile tissue specimens.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	319-323
Number of pages	5
Journal	American journal of clinical pathology
Volume	74
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/74.3.319
State	Published - Jan 1 1980

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Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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