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The use of antibiotic therapy prior to bacterial confirmation of meningitis may also affect the results of this study giving a false confirmed study population.
The use of antibiotic therapy prior to bacterial confirmation of meningitis may also affect the results of this study giving an under-representation of confirmed cases.
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Direct bacterial confirmation by culture is difficult because of inadequate anaerobic culture, prior antibiotic therapy or overgrowth of concomitant organisms.
In France, anti-pneumococcal fluoroquinolones are recommended after bacterial confirmation or if the patient is at high risk of complications [ 15].
Bacterial confirmation (smear positive/culture positive) was used to identify TB patients.
This relationship was confirmed by using a BLAST search of the assembly against the nonredundant NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Informationn) sequence database that contains published bacterial sequences; confirmation of the relationship indicated that the organism most closely resembles B. fragilis 638R and is not better classified as an alternative species already present in GenBank.
Among the 184 subjects who met enrolment criteria, 104 suspected as clinical acute bacterial meningitis were visited and 83 were confirmed as exposed following biological confirmation of acute bacterial meningitis.
37 U.S. clinical specimens were referred to CDC for detection or confirmation of bacterial meningitis etiology from January to June 2009, including CSF (n = 21), whole blood (n = 6), serum (n = 6), and tissues (n = 4) (Table 3).
In remote Alaskan villages, lack of ready access to laboratory confirmation of bacterial pathogens may contribute to overuse of antimicrobial agents.
Second, our study cohort was relatively large, and all patients in the sepsis cohort had formal microbiologic confirmation of bacterial infection.
For confirmation of bacterial identification by conventional method such as MicroScan, the isolate was sent to another laboratory (Dr Xiang-Yang Han of MD Anderson in Houston, TX, USA) for 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing.
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