Sentence examples for cultures requested from inspiring English sources

Of the 747 initial cultures requested, 402 (53.8%) were positive, with non-significantly higher percentage of positive cultures (59.3% versus 48.1% p=0.002) in the intervention group.

Most notably, a positive viral test result did not lead to significant reductions in antibiotic use, number of chest radiographs obtained, and number of blood cultures requested.

However, retrospective examination of the total number of cultures requested by physicians each year from 6 acute care hospitals demonstrated that 102,537, 99,772, and 99,461 total cultures were ordered at these facilities in 2000, 2001, and 2002, respectively.

The pathogen and contamination rates were calculated by dividing the number of blood cultures yielding pathogens and contaminants respectively by the total number of blood culture requested.

Fifty-two of the serum samples were subjected to ELISA and 40 of the patients had blood culture requested by a clinician.

All cases of blood culture requested with a preliminary diagnosis of sepsis from a newborn up to 14 years of age admitted at the NICU, children's emergency and the pediatric wards were included in the study.

It receives specimens either directly, when mycobacteria cultures are requested, or as cultures from other laboratories to confirm mycobacterium and determine the species.

All cultures were requested by clinicians based on clinical discretion.