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Br J Ophthalmol 89:586-590 doi:10.1136/bjo.2004.053439
  • Clinical science
    • Extended reports

Efficiency of blood culture bottles for the fungal sterility testing of corneal organ culture media

Table 1

 Comparison of the three blood bottles. Both times to detection in hours and percentage of detection within the 24 hours following inoculation were presented. Results were means of experiments performed in triplicates

+Aerobic/F Mycosis IC/F Myco/F Lytic
Time to detection (mean (SD), median, range) 13 (9), 13, 1–46 14 (19), 11, 1–108 22 (24), 14 (5–114)
% of detection within 24 hours (n) 91% (40/44) 89% (39/44) 77% (34/44)

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