Abstract

Blood cultures (BCs) are important routine tests that are conducted in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Unfortunately, the common rate of BCs contamination is high which led to many clinical and economic consequences. To effectively reduce BCs contamination rate, the sampling stage done by the phlebotomy team is very important. Therefore, we conducted current study to update knowledge about the phlebotomy performances.

Keywords: Phlebotomy; Blood Culture; Contamination

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Citation

Citation: Reza Bigverdi.,et al. “Improvement Performances to Decrease Blood Culture Contamination”.Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 5.11 (2021): 53-55.

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Copyright: © 2021 Reza Bigverdi.,et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.