Experience with the use of a blood culture system for demonstration of clinically relevant bacteria in veterinary medicine diagnosis
Gareis, M.; Seidel, K.E.; Diehl, T.
Tierarztliche Praxis 24(5): 419-425
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0303-6286 PMID: 8999584 Document Number: 465558
268 diagnostic samples from dogs, cats, horses and cattle were examined in a commercially available blood culture system. Samples of blood, liquor, ascites, thorax punctate, synovia and urine were examined with a blood culture system (Oxoid) over a period of two years in cooperation with the veterinary clinical institutes of internal medicine and surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and different veterinarians. It was shown that this blood culture system, which has been initially developed for the requirements of human bacteriology, can be used for isolation of clinical important microorganisms in veterinary medicine. In 29% of examined samples isolation of bacteria was possible. Even bacteria, which are not often cultivated and bacteria, which could not be identified biochemically, could be isolated. Because of experience in human bacteriology and in conclusion of our results, the use of blood culture systems can be recommended for veterinary diagnosis, in particular when sepsis is suspected.