How many days does it take to get blood culture results of a breast abscess?

2 days: With current photometric monitoring of blood cultures, most real positive cultures are identified by 24 hours of incubation, and virtually all by 48 hours. Blood cultures positive after 48 hours of incubation must be viewed a possible contaminants if drawn from a venipuncture (but not from a central line).

Varirs: Ideally the result of a culture would come back in a couple days. In reality the full culture and antibiotic sensitivity may take 5-7 days to come back. Blood cultures results may take longer than direct abscess fluid culture from the breast itself too.