Routine Fungal Blood Culture May Be Unnecessary in AIDS Patients

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Routine Fungal Blood Culture May Be Unnecessary in AIDS Patients

Reuters Health Information Services (12/17/97)

Abstract: In the December issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles suggest that routine fungal blood cultures in AIDS patients with suspected invasive fungal infection may not be needed. The physicians conducted a retrospective review of 322 AIDS patients and found that 1,162 fungal blood cultures were performed for these individuals. The researchers note that in the 15 cases in which the isolates were deemed true pathogens, standard blood culture successfully identified all of the fungal isolates and detection of all invasive fungal infections was made prior to the availability of the fungal blood cultures.

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