Further Refinements on the Value of Processing
Body Fluids and Abscesses
L.B. Reller, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Session: Optimal Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory
ASM General Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 22, 2000
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2.
Everts RJ, Fowler WC, Chang DH, Reller LB. Are donor corneoscleral rim cultures useful in the
care of patients after corneal transplantation? Abstract C74. Presented 18 May 1998, 98th
General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, Georgia.
3.
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and valve tags are not valuable for patients without infective endocarditis who are undergoing
valve replacement. Clin Infect Dis 1997;24:884-8.
4.
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undergoing native valve replacement. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1998;122:412-5.
5.
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patients at risk for shunt infections. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:3109-11.
6.
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polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of central nervous system infections. Clin Infect Dis
1999;29:803-6.
7.
Everts RJ, Gruninger RP, Reller LB. Utility of clinically focused, laboratory-based screening
criteria for fungal and mycobacterial cultures of cerebrospinal and other sterile body fluids.
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Everts RJ, Adholla PO, Reller LB. Validity of cultures of fluid collected through drainage
catheters versus those obtained by direct aspiration. Abstract C446. Presented 21 May 1998,
98th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, Georgia.