Talk:Blood culture

Spam
An anonymous user from the 129.31 range insists on leaving an external link to http://www.biomerieux-usa.com - the site of a manufacturer. I really don't see the point in adding a link to one manufacturer. If we are to learn details about the composition of the medium or the material of the bottles, why can't we provide this content in more general terms (generalisable to all other manufacturers) and integrate this with the article's content?

I'm also getting annoyed with the provocative edit summaries by this user ("who do you think you are"). I have now semiprotected the page, and hope that we can have a somewhat more reasonable discussion. JFW | T@lk  08:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Agree - inappropriate spam linkage. Site is commercial for that company and the link was to the company's homepage rather than any subpage giving specific information about this one topic (the topic being "blood culture", not one manufacturer's products). External links should be to provide greater information than that which would be appropriate were the article to be at featured article level. Wikipedia is not a directory listing service (go use Google etc), and whilst the company if a notably leader or innovative in its niche (notable of course not as the company itself would claim, but opinion cited from reliable third party sources) may or may not warrrent its own article, but adding in link to a general analytical manufacturer to this article is inappropriate. Further, to repeatedly reinsert the link is spamming. In general, I would suggest adding content and improving wikipedia's articles rather than merely add commercial external links.David Ruben Talk 00:26, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

How many blood cultures
How many sets of blood cultures? This page is not complete or well-referenced yet. Perhaps one standard is 2 sets of blood cultures, aerobic and anaerobic, for a total of 4 culture bottles, before antibiotic therapy in a typical suspected pneumonia or case of sepsis. There are over 50,000 citations in MEDLINE on blood cultures. Using different search techniques, terms, searching reviews, and so on I have still not found the papers that are exactly on the number of blood cultures recommended in different clinical settings. Anyone happen to know the right citations? ReasonableLogicalMan (Talk 19:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Improvement of article
To everyone,

Please help to improve this article. I really do not have the time, and it looks really awful. Suggestions for improvement:
 * More history, including diagnostics
 * Clearify procedure, very unsatisfying at the moment. Current procedure tells more about a vena punction, not the procedure for diagnosing sepsis or whatsoever.
 * Info about the bottles cq. material, aerobic (green) and anaerobic (red).
 * Diagnostics of nowadays (Bact-Alert®, measurement of CO2 in blood to determine the presence bacteria)
 * Pathology of sepsis, not to much -> link to main article of sepsis
 * Professionalise writing style
 * Wikify whole article

Sorry I couldn't do it, but I hope my suggestions are helpful! Dr. F.C. Turner - [ USERPAGE | USERTALK ] - 21:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Procedure/method secion
I replaced the current procedure section with an older version  that seemed much better-written. As the comment above points out, the version that I replaced was focused on venipuncture at the expense of the overall blood culture procedure. Hanacy (talk) 22:33, 9 March 2010 (UTC)