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The anaerobic bottle was the only positive bottle in 8/1732 (0.5%) patients cultured.
As soon as bacterial growth was detected, the positive bottle was sent for single-colony subculture.
For the microarray, the turnaround time from positive bottle to microorganism identification was about four hours including preparation of blood culture bottles and DNA extraction.
This was followed by performing Gram staining and inoculating two non-selective agar plates, a blood agar and a chocolate agar plate, as well as a selective and differential plate, MacConkey agar, for each signal positive bottle.
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Positive bottles were smeared when growth index reached 50.
McMillan et al. [ 36] found that positive breastfeeding attitude, norms and control were predictive of breastfeeding intentions, and that positive bottle-feeding attitude and perceived behavioural control were predictive of formula feeding intentions.
Positive bottles were subcultured on blood, chocolate and MacConkey agar.
The positive bottles were then subcultured on chrome agar.
If no acid-fast organisms were observed on stain, signal positive bottles were presumptively considered contaminated.
The positive bottles did result in reliable identification (≥1.7 × <2) the next day.
Samples from positive bottles were subcultured onto 5% (vol/vol) sheep blood agar, MacConkey agar, and chocolate agar.
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