In the last decade a number of tests were developed and used for early detection of sepsis yet blood culture remains a gold standard in establishing diagnosis of sepsis according to 1992-2001 definition which gives an emphasis on the role of microbes in the pathogenesis of sepsis. Thus this study was aimed at isolating and identifying bacterial and/or fungal agents from blood culture of the patients diagnosed clinically as having sepsis. A total of 673 blood cultures were performed from 743 patients and in the remaining patients microbes other than bacteria/fungi were found as cause of sepsis and so blood cultures were not performed in them. | Bacteriological profile of blood culture from adult sepsis patients from a rural based tertiary care and teaching hospital Piparia Vadodara India
