Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

Délai de Positivité

English translation:

time to detection

Added to glossary by joanna menda
Nov 23, 2018 18:59
5 yrs ago
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French term

Délai de Positivité

French to English Medical Medical (general) blood tests
Hi,

I have different results for aerobic and anaerobic vials with "Délai de Positivité"
Is the correct translation: "time to positivity"?

Thanks

Joanna
Proposed translations (English)
5 +1 time to detection
4 Time to positivity

Discussion

Denise Pavao Nov 23, 2018:
Hi Joanna - or "time to detection". Blood cultures are loaded into an instrument once they reach the lab, and the instrument monitors them constantly (for a set number of days) and sounds an alarm when a positive blood culture is detected.
Sue Davis Nov 23, 2018:
Hi Joanna - yes I think so - time to positivity is used in this paper https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1198743X15001834/1-s2.0-S1198743X150...

Proposed translations

+1
2 hrs
Selected

time to detection

Time period between loading blood culture bottle into the instrument and instrument detection of microorganism.
Peer comment(s):

agree Drmanu49
15 hrs
Thanks Dr Manu!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Denise!"
23 hrs

Time to positivity

https://jcp.bmj.com/content/jclinpath/51/8/635.full.pdf
by MS Rogers - ‎1998 - ‎Cited by 27 - ‎Related articles
Results—Time to positivity and length of lag period were ... and anaerobic culture bottles, but in some cases the FAN aerobic bottles were used to enhance the ...

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https://www.biomerieux-usa.com/.../blood_culture_booklet_-_p...
Blood culture set:the combination of blood culture bottles (one aerobic and ..... Time to positivity is also a factor used to determine potential contamination .... UK Department of Health: Taking Blood Cultures – A summary of best practice. 2007.

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https://jcm.asm.org/content/54/6/1418
by JD Bard - ‎2016 - ‎Cited by 23 - ‎Related articles
They found that the pediatric bottles did not reduce the time to positivity, and in fact, ... A study of nearly 10,000 paired aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles ... (FDA) for in vitro diagnostic use on positive blood cultures, including peptide ...
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