Microbiological Diagnosis of Osteoarticular Infections: Comparison between BacT/Alert Bottles and Schaedler Broth

Autor: Esther Gydé, Béate Heym, Florence Gillaizeau, Simon Marmor, Philippe Boisrenoult, Marlène Amara
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Microbiology Spectrum, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2165-0497
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00498-22
Popis: ABSTRACT Microbiological diagnosis of osteoarticular infections (OAIs) is based on culture on several media. Experts recommend the use of liquid media, such as Schaedler broth, but many laboratories use blood culture media with automated detection instead for convenience. We aimed to evaluate the performance of culturing in BacT/Alert (bioMérieux) bottles for the microbiological diagnosis of OAI versus culturing in Schaedler broth. This prospective study was conducted on all osteoarticular specimens sent to the microbiology laboratories of the Versailles and Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon hospitals between October 2016 and February 2017. Each sample was inoculated onto solid agar, into BacT/Alert bottles incubated for 14 days, and into a Schaedler broth incubated for 14 days with daily reading. The gold standard was defined as follow: OAI was diagnosed for a patient if at least two samples were positive for a nonskin microorganism and at least three for a cutaneous species. The times to detection were compared. A total of 1,616 specimens from 349 patients were collected. BacT/Alert bottles were significantly more sensitive than the Schaedler process for OAI diagnosis (114/135 OAI detected by BacT/Alert bottles; 91/135 OAI detected by Schaedler broth; +17.0% [95% confidence interval {CI}, 6.8%, 27.3%]; P = 0.0004). The time to detection was significantly shorter using BacT/Alert bottles (2.0 ± 2.2 days) than using Schaedler broth (4.6 ± 3.6 days, P
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