Blood culture is commonly used to find pathogenic bacteria, belongs to the laboratory artificial culture method, mainly used to diagnose bacteremia and other diseases, if positive indicates that the body’s blood circulation has a pathogenic infection, usually more serious, and need to be treated in time.
Blood culture refers to the inoculation of fresh liquid on a professional culture medium, under certain conditions to identify the growth and reproduction of pathogens, can be used to diagnose whether the bacteremia, fungemia, sepsis and septic sepsis and other diseases, if the blood culture to detect the pathogenic bacteria or positive, generally more serious and need timely treatment.
Once detected as positive, it should be promptly consulted and treated under the guidance of a doctor, otherwise the pathogenic bacteria can spread to various places with the blood, causing organ failure and adverse effects.