Blood culture contamination
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- Never bacteremia
- Corynebacterium
- Bacillus, except B. anthracis
- Propionobacterium acnes
- Almost never bacteremia
- Micrococcus
- Enterococcus
- Clostridium perfringens
- Coagulase-negative staphylococci
- Always true bacteremia
- Saphylococcus aureus
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Escherichia coli
- Enterobacteraciae
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Candida albicans
- Coagulase negative staphylococci are rarely significant (12%), but because they are so common (70-80% of all positive cultures), they are the most common cause of bacteremia.
