Blood Cultures In Bacterial Endocarditis*

Abstract

An impro’d base broth for culturing blood in bacterial endocarditis was compared with routine culture medium in 77 samples, taken from 26 patients of infective endocarditis. On Culture with improved broth 18 patients showed bacter iological presence as compared to 3 patients on routine culture media giving sensitivity of 69.23%. The number of abacteremic patients were 30.76.