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What is bactec?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 11/5/2022

Bactec is an automatizated method to detect the presence of bacteria in human blood.

The bood is put on a bottle and is incubated at a certain temperature. The machine is able to detect the growth of bacteria in the bottle and alerts the microbiologist.

The BACTEC cannot identify the bacteria present in blood, therefore the microbiologist makes a culture of the positive bottles.

BACTEC has the advantage that microbiologist only harvests the positive samples of blood, making a quick discard of negative samples with gaining of time and saving costs.

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