Keep up the PACE with ASM Knowledge Forum Presentations. This presentation was given at ASM 2007 in Ontario. Participants who register and complete the questions and evaluation will receive 1.0 PACE CEU. The program number is 195-558-07.

bioMerieux, Inc. is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.^® Program

Speaker:  Duane W. Newton, Ph.D., D(ABMM)

Objectives:

1. Identify non-blood specimen types appropriate for culture in automated blood culture systems

2. Describe procedures for sterile body fluid specimen collection, processing, and culture using automated blood culture systems

3. Assess the differences in pathogen recovery from automated blood culture systems compared to conventional culture methods.