Business Wire

Kurin, Inc. Receives Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for Patent on Innovative Blood Culture Collection Device

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kurin, Inc., the inventor and manufacturer of 510(k)-cleared Kurin® blood culture collection sets, announced today that the United States Patent Office allowed its patent ...
La Grande Observer

New Study Demonstrates Potential for Enhanced Accuracy of Blood Cultures with Steripath® Initial Specimen Diversion Device® (ISDD®) for Central Line Draws

SEATTLE, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., the pioneer in Initial Specimen Diversion Device ® (ISDD ®) technology, today announced groundbreaking new findings from an ...
Labroots

What Causes False Positives? Understanding Blood Culture Contamination

Blood culture is the most widely used diagnostic tool for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. It is the most important way to diagnose the etiology of bloodstream infections and has major ...
Nature

Blood Culture Contamination Reduction Strategies

The accurate detection of bloodstream infections is central to effective patient management, yet false‐positive results from blood culture contamination continue to impose significant clinical and ...
Labroots

Give Blood Culture Quality the Attention your Patients Deserve

Blood Cultures are the gold standard test for Sepsis diagnosis and an essential first step in infectious organism identification. Improving its quality is critical to the outcomes for a patient with ...