A blood culture test helps your doctor figure out if you have a kind of infection that is in your bloodstream and can affect your entire body. Doctors call this a systemic infection. The test ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration added the affected products to their list of medical device shortages two ... is no blood cultures for any patient worse or better than having one set for ...

These blood culture bottles are designed to work in a specific testing ... For instance, they no longer routinely take two sets to rule out false positives. Instead, they take extra steps to prevent ...