Am I correct in my understanding that a blood test can be taken & checked w/out looking for something specific? Such as, can blood work be done simply to look for any kind of infection & to just determine whether said infection is bacterial, viral or fungal, w/out having to be for something specific, such as strep, etc.?
Would appreciate input on this. Thanks! :)
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1|1|not sure but.......|kdrink|kdrink34@yahoo.com|14:45:37|04/16/2012|
when i had a rapid infection and was hospitalized for over one week, I beleive they didn't know what the infection was (however I surmise I has staph from the previous hospitalization) they took my blood and looked at my 19,000 white blood cell count and they instantly determined that I had an infection! 2|1|A culture on a blood specimen does look for the specific bacteria/fungus/virus, ie streptococcus, staph aureus, etc....it is the type of agent used during the culture testing that will show what is present, certain agents react with specific micro organism....does that make sense? |saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|17:41:45|04/16/2012|
Posted on Apr-16-12 at 05:41 PM (Eastern) by 98.213.152.114
It would depend on how the physician wrote the order as to which infectants would be looked for, although he can order a general blood culture, which will screen for the most commonly found (aerobic or anaerobic micro organisms.
Here's some info on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_culture
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3|2|So it can be done, similar to fingerprints......|maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|19:29:46|04/16/2012|
Where they can do a general blood culture, enter it into a database to id it as either bacterial, fungal or viral & then, that database would also narrow it down as to what *type* of bacterial, fungal or viral. Am I correct?
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4|3|Well, not exactly....the culture the specimen in a medium, and each medium will react with a different type of micro organism....for example, EMB medium allows for the growth of gram-negative bacterias, MSA medium is allows for the growth of gram-positive bacterias, etc....so whichever dish gets the growth will tell them what is present (that is the simplest way of explaining, most of these things are done by machines anymore, but same principles).|saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|20:31:41|04/16/2012|
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