Blood culture is called a form of blood culture, which is widely used in the field of medicine to reveal different forms of infection caused by some contaminating agent present in the blood. This procedure is carried out in a laboratory and must be carried out if it is believed that an individual is presenting characteristic symptoms of an infection that will most likely be in the process of development or, failing that, if it is required to detect an infectious agent that causes it, for that form to be able to develop the correct treatment to eradicate it, since otherwise the treatment will not be effective, since there are certain bacteria or microorganisms that present resistance to certain drugs.
To be able to carry out a blood culture it is necessary to extract a blood sample from the patient, then proceed to culture said sample, in order to verify if there are microorganisms, for this reason it is of great importance that the management of said sample does not present alterations since it could alter the results, after the sample is taken it must be transferred to the laboratory where it must be emptied into the Petri dishes., together with certain elements that can favor the microorganisms present in the sample to spread, after that, said container must be placed in an environment where there is presence of humidity and a temperature that does not present variations, where you must wait the time required for the external agents to develop and the presence of them in the analyzed sample can be confirmed or not.
In many cases, infectious agents can be identified through techniques where the sample taken is stained with different dyes, which may allow them to be detected through the use of microscopes, the most common being the Gram stain.
After the samples are analyzed, the doctor in charge of carrying out the analysis must proceed to prepare a report in which the results obtained are detailed in detail. If the values are normal in this report, it means that there is no presence of microorganisms or infection in the patient.
