Body Fluid Culture (Bactec)

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Body Fluid Culture (Bactec)

1-Sterile Container
1-Aerobic Blood Culture bottle
1-Anaerobic Blood Culture bottle

2 mLs Body Fluid in Sterile Container Refrigerated; 10 mLs Body Fluid in each Blood Culture bottle (Aerobic and Anaerobic) Ambient

Pericardial, pleural, ascites, paracentesis, peritoneal, thoracentesis or donor cornea fluid inoculated into aerobic and anaerobic Bactec blood bottles. If available, submit additional fluid in sterile container for separate Gram stain order.
Maximum 10 mL of fluid inoculated into each bottle. Minimum volume inoculated into each bottle is 2 mL.

Drainage, abscess, CSF, Synovial fluid, or less than 4 mL total of fluid.

For synovial fluid, please order a Synovial Fluid Culture. Gram stain order placed separately.
For a CSF, order a Cerebrospinal Fluid Culture. Gram stain order included.

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