The BACTEC™ 9000 family of continuous monitoring blood culturing instruments offer per­for­mance, safety, reliability, ease of use, media quality and service.

Enhanced Safety
The BACTEC blood culture bottles make compliance with OSHA safety directives easy by utilizing items already found in most hospital settings. BACTEC blood culture bottles are designed to permit direct draw of samples with the Vacutainer™ Brand Safety-Lok™ Blood Collection Set and an ordinary Vacutainer Brand needle holder, minimizing needle and syringe transfers. If a needle and syringe are required to draw a sample, the BD Blood Transfer Device can be connected to the syringe to provide a “safe” option for inoculating BACTEC blood culture bottles.

Continuous Monitoring Technology
BACTEC 9000 Systems feature the unique BACTEC 9000 fluorescent sensor technology that allows for fully-automated, walk-away testing using a con­tinuous-monitoring instrument that agitates and incubates BACTEC/F blood culture bottles, result­ing in earlier detection of positives.
The BACTEC instrument also provides advanced algorithms for individual bottle types, for special circumstances such as low blood volume, pediatric specimens, or to detect slow growing organisms such as Haemophilus and Neisseria. These algo­rithms provide rapid detection of pathogens in blood culture.
Data management systems with barcode scanning capabilities provide rapid entry of bottles into the BACTEC 9000 series instrument and linkage to patient information. Bidirectional LIS interface elimi­nates 80% of key strokes for the computer operator and allows personnel on all shifts and with differing levels of experience to quickly master data/ bottle entry, thus reducing labor and improving time-to-results.
Automated BIT testing provides QC for every well in the system every 10 minutes, eliminating the need for several QC procedures. This QC conforms to CLIA '88 regulations.

Simple Operation
In the BACTEC 9000 instrument, step-by-step directions for bottle processing and test initiation are provided by scanning the barcode test menu.
Patient demographics can be entered into the system using the BACTEC Barcode Scanner or directly downloaded from the LIS system. They can also be entered via keyboard, if desired.
Bottles are tested every 10 minutes. Positive results are flagged for quick processing. Negative bottles can be batch-scanned out of the system and un­loaded at the end of protocol.
The BACTEC™ 9000 Fluorescent Series is available in connectable modules to accommodate any labora­tory’s blood culture test volume:

• The BACTEC 9240 System, which accommodates 240 test bottles.
• The BACTEC 9120 System, which accommodates 120 test bottles.
  (Up to 5 BACTEC 9240/9120 System instruments can be networked together through a single PC module, for ease-of-use in large laboratories.)
• The BACTEC 9050 System, which accommo­dates 50 test vials, features an extremely small “foot­print” (Only 4 1/4 square feet of tabletop needed — and no external computer required!). It is suitable for the smaller laboratory: one per­forming less than 150 blood cultures per month.

This unit offers the same technological advantages of non-invasive, continuous monitoring blood culture testing as the larger BACTEC 9000 systems and is supported by the same full line of BACTEC media. BACTEC 9050 operation is based on an easy-to-use icon interface and barcode scanner.

BD BACTEC/F Blood Culture Media
The BACTEC/F line of blood culture media is used with the BACTEC 9000 Fluorescent Series Systems. These media permit screening for bacteria, yeast and fungi present in the blood. This line includes standard broth media, resin media and media specifically designed for small blood volume inoculation.
The patented BACTEC resin media have been shown to effectively neutralize a wide variety of antibi­otics, allowing growth of microorganisms that would not occur with conventional media.
BACTEC resin media achieve significantly higher isolation rates in antibiotic patients than systems using only broth dilution. This greater recovery leads to more accurate diagnosis and effective treat­ment, which can in turn lead to shorter hospital stays, lower patient costs and greater overall laboratory and institutional efficiency.

BD BACTEC™ Plus Aerobic/F and Plus Anaerobic/F Medium
BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F and Plus Anaerobic/F media are all-purpose enriched soybean-casein digest broth media. These media contain resins for anti­biotic neutralization, providing increased recovery as compared with Standard media.
BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F Medium is capable of sup­porting growth of common obligate aerobic and facultative organisms; BACTEC Plus Anaerobic/F Medium is capable of supporting growth of com­mon obligate anaerobic and facultative organisms.

BD BACTEC Peds Plus™/F Medium
BACTEC Peds Plus/F media are specialized media that accommodate small-volume samples (≤ 3 mL of blood), to optimize detection of common pediatric pathogens. The medium is an enriched soybean-casein digest broth and contains resins for anti­biotic neutralization.

BD BACTEC Lytic/10 Anaerobic/F Medium
This medium contains a lysing agent to increase the detection and recovery of organisms partially phagocytized by white blood cells. It is an enriched soybean-casein digest broth that will support the growth of obligate anaerobic and facultative organisms. It accommodates up to 10 mL of blood.

BD BACTEC™ Standard/10 Aerobic/F and Standard/10 Anaerobic/F Medium
These general purpose media provide excellent recovery and times-to-detection.
Other BACTEC media include:

• BACTEC Myco/F–Sputa Culture Medium, for use with the BACTEC 9000MB System to detect mycobacteria species in clinical samples.
• BACTEC Myco/F Lytic.

BD BACTEC™ Blood Culture Procedural Trays
BACTEC Blood Culture Procedural Trays reduce the chances of contaminating a blood culture by pro­vid­ing all of the components necessary to draw blood for culture, in a convenient tray format. The trays standardize procedures hospital-wide and increase compliance with physician requests.
Using the Bactec Blood Culture Procedural Trays optimizes media performance for the best com­bina­tion of recovery and time-to-detection. The BACTEC Blood Culture Procedural Trays minimize needle-stick potential and reduce inventory and supply costs by providing a capitated kit cost for blood culturing.
BACTEC Blood Culture Procedural Trays include:

• Persist™ Skin Prep Swab, 10% Povidone Iodine swab with 70% alcohol is the ideal solution for depend­able, standardized decontamination. The one-step application makes compliance with aseptic-collection techniques easy, improving the quality of patient results.
• Vacutainer™ Brand Safety-Lok™ Blood Collection Set, which enhances safety by reducing the risk of an accidental needle stick. The set includes an integrated multi-sample Luer-Lok™ adapter to collect the specimen directly into the BACTEC culture vials.
• BACTEC Procedure Chart, which reinforces the use of proper aseptic technique and standardizes blood collection practices.
• BACTEC Blood Culture Procedural Tray #1 con­­tains Plus Aerobic/F and Lytic/10 Anaerobic/F media. BACTEC Blood Culture Procedural Tray #2 contains Standard/10 Aerobic/F and Standard Anaerobic/F media. BACTEC Blood Culture Pro­ce­dural Tray #3 contains Peds Plus/F media.