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From: Clinical evaluation of commercial nucleic acid amplification tests in patients with suspected sepsis

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Algorithm for deciding on clinical relevance of microbial findings in blood by blood culture [25] or NAAT. Other cultures were made from clinically relevant sites before administration of intravenous antibiotics. On suspicion of pneumonia or sepsis with unknown focus, a pulmonary X-ray was performed. Ultrasound, computed tomography scan, and magnetic resonance imaging were used when deemed necessary for diagnosing the site of infection. BC blood culture; NAAT nucleic acid amplification test.

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