Blood cultures were processed using the automated blood culture system.
Blood cultures were processed using the automated BACTEC system (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Instruments, Sparks, MD, USA).
Cultures were processed using the BacT/ALERT 3D (bioMerieux, Hazelwood, MO) automated microbial detection system.
All blood cultures were processed using the Bactec 9240 fluorescent system (Becton Dickinson).
Blood cultures were processed using the BacT/ALERT 3D system (bioMérieux, France).
Briefly, blood cultures were processed using the BD BACTEC™ (Becton Dickinson, UK) Instrumented Culture System incubating BACTEC™ Peds Plus™/F culture vials containing 1 2 ml of peripheral blood for children.
Blood cultures were processed using an automated colorimetric detection system (BacT/ALERT, bioMerieux, Durham, NC, USA) in three hospitals and an equivalent blood culture system (BACTEC Becton-Dickinson, Cockeysville, Md). in the other three hospitals [ 26].
A single 10 mL mycobacterial blood culture was processed using the MB/BacT automated system (bioMerieux, Inc, Durham, NC, USA).
The data were processed using Origin 7.0.
The force data were processed using Matlab.
