Résumé
This retrospective study compared the BD BACTEC™ Mycosis IC/F with the BD BACTEC™ Plus Aerobic/F and BD BACTEC™ Lytic Anaerobic/F culture vials (i.e., standard vials) for fungemia diagnosis at Nîmes University Hospital, France. From 2013 to 2020, 57 blood samples were concomitantly collected in the 3 culture vial types. For 43.8% of these samples, all vials were positive for yeast. The mean time to positivity was shorter (32.0 hours vs 44.2 hours; -12.2 hours) and longer (89.4 hours vs 33.7 hours; +55.7 hours) with the BD BACTEC™ Mycosis IC/F culture vials than with the other culture vials in patients without and with antifungal treatment, respectively. Moreover 31.6% and 24.6% of samples were positive only with the standard vials and with the BD BACTEC™ Mycosis IC/F culture vials, respectively. The BD BACTEC™ Mycosis IC/F culture vials are useful for the initial fungemia diagnosis (before any treatment) because they provide faster results.