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What tha show all bacterial infection show in blood culture (fever investigation) for example tonsillitis?
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Culture: A Blood cuture will identify bacteria in your blood stream. The likelyhood of a positive culture increases with temperature
Answered 10/5/2014
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Blood culture: Will only show bacterial that has disseminated hemategenously. Localised bacterial infections do not show up in the blood like pharyngitis, abcess, tonsilitis,pneumonia, UTi unless bacteremia or sepsis is present
Answered 11/25/2016
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