Among Patients With S. Aureus Bacteremia, Time To Positivity From Sequential Blood Cultures Varies Depending On Methicillin-Susceptibility Of S. Aureus Isolates, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (5/14, Kuhns) reports, “In patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, the time to positivity from sequential blood cultures varies depending on the methicillin-susceptibility of S aureus isolates, according to study results published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.” In the study, “the median time to positivity was 12 (IQR, 10-15) hours from initial cultures and 21 (IQR, 17-29) hours from sequential blood cultures, and the median duration between initial and sequential blood culture collection was 1.1 (IQR, 0.6-1.4) days.”