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A 29-year old asked:

what's a blood culture used for?

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A 43-year old asked:

How long do blood cultures take?

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A 38-year old asked:

Why would you need a blood culture?

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A 33-year old asked:

Blood culture and how long till results?

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A 33-year old asked:

How do you get e-coli in a blood culture?

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A 35-year old asked:

What is gram positive rod negative in a blood culture test?

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A 36-year old asked:

Does it normally take 3 days for blood cultures to come back?

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A 29-year old asked:

Can getting a blood culture test show if you have HIV?

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A 34-year old asked:

Can you have osteomylitis in your spine and still have a negative blood culture?

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A 36-year old asked:

Cbc and esr good reports no need for blood cultures?

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A 29-year old asked:

What could happen if blood culture media gets into your blood stream?

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A 38-year old asked:

Blood culture: can the consumption of antibiotics cause false positives?

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A 51-year old female asked:

Would a breast blood culture show inflammatory breast csncer?

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A 45-year old asked:

If you are hospitalized for having endocarditis, is a cbc test done along with the blood culture?

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A 20-year old female asked:

At the hospital, I had three blood cultures that contained gram-negative rods. What does this mean?

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A 51-year old female asked:

How many days does it take to get blood culture results of a breast abscess?

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A 20-year old female asked:

Blood culture after surgery yielded moderate growth of staph aureus.(AP,TET,CAM,STP, Fortum =R)(GENT,FLOX,CTZ =S++)S=Sensitivity +=degree R=resistance?

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A 42-year old female asked:

1year baby With positive salmonella &blood culture.2 weeks with diarrhea &fever.In&out ER for a week and mucous&bld in stool. Won't eat or drink much?

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A 24-year old female asked:

Urinalysis negative but culture positive for e.coli (100,000 cfu ml) w/cath draw. Blood culture negative. Fever of 104. Why was urinalysis negative?

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A 40-year old female asked:

Persistent stomach bloating, nausea, and low back pain. Gyno-normal GI- normal blood cultures-normal what should I try next?

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A 26-year old female asked:

Can an antibiotic that I took for a superficial hip infection of the incisions can blood work to become nirmal? I had a cmp cbc and blood culture

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A 51-year old female asked:

My oncologist thinks I have an abscess.He did a blood culture so I will get results.Big painful lump still there.Is it inflammatory breast cancer?

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A 33-year old male asked:

If Complement C3, CH50, Serum Protein Electrophoresis, and Immunofixation suggest severe infection, why is CBC normal? I've never had blood culture.

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A 23-year old female asked:

What can cause elevated WBC count and fever of 103.9 when chest xray, nose swab, blood culture and UA come back negative in a 4 yr old boy?

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A 25-year old female asked:

Can xifaxan (rifaximin) & probiotics cause your stool to smell "chemically"? It almost smells like motor oil. Stool looks brownish/orange. No visible blood. stool culture/o&p = neg.

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A 46-year old male asked:

L flank pain 4 months. Last 4 weeks severe. Lipase 4-1 were 107, yesterday 34. Amylase 4-1 were 100. Multiple CT's MRI's blood test & cultures. Help!

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A 25-year old female asked:

Loose stools x12 days, last few days they've been orange/brown. I have a gallstone, but no pain. No appetite. fatigue. No blood. stool culture, O&P, blood work, abd xray, u/s normal. xifaxan (rifaximin) not worki?

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A 27-year old female asked about a female:

Child has lower stomach pain. Hurts to move and touch. Urine dip said high white blood count and culture had no growth what could be wrong?

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A 23-year old female asked:

ARE THERE ULCERS AND BLISTERS OF THE VAGINA OTHER THAN HERPES. CULTURES/ BLOOD NEG. AND OTHER STD'S NEG. WHAT COULD IT BE? DID ATRANSVAGINAL?

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A 33-year old female asked:

my child had bloody mucousy stools. i took her to the ER and they tested for c-diff, e coli, blood work and cultures of her stools and blood. c-diff and e-coli were negative. this was sunday.. it is now late wed. and still no answers. what could this be?

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