blood culture for fungus/Mycobacterium

Indications

• disseminated mycosis, fungemia
• disseminated Mycobacterial infection

Specimen

• collect 20 mL of blood
• divide equally between 2 100 mL culture bottles or between a 100 mL blood culture bottle & a lysis centrifugation tube

Notes

• specify 'hold for extended incubation'
• any fungal agents take 7-14 days to grow in standard culture media

More general terms

• blood culture
• bacterial culture
• fungus culture

More specific terms

• fungus culture blood
• Mycobacterium culture blood

Additional terms

• Mycobacterium
• mycosis; fungal infection