Blood Culture Headspace Gas Analysis Enables Early Detection of <i>Escherichia coli</i> Bacteremia in an Animal Model of Sepsis

• Main Authors: Maximilian Euler (Author), Thorsten Perl (Author), Isabell Eickel (Author), Anna Dudakova (Author), Esther Maguilla Rosado (Author), Carolin Drees (Author), Wolfgang Vautz (Author), Johannes Wieditz (Author), Konrad Meissner (Author), Nils Kunze-Szikszay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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(1) Background: Automated blood culture headspace analysis for the detection of volatile organic compounds of microbial origin (mVOC) could be a non-invasive method for bedside rapid pathogen identification. We investigated whether analyzing the gaseous headspace of blood culture (BC) bottles throug...