Can blood cultures be used for the isolation of microbial DNA?

Blood culture

All kits based on the MolYsis™ technology can be used for the isolation of microbial DNA from blood cultures.

The blood culture samples shall be diluted at least 1:10 (100 µl blood culture + 900 µl SU buffer) before starting the protocol.

In a study, it was shown that bacterial growth in blood cultures can be detected by PCR significantly earlier when using MolYsis™ Plus than the microbial detection system (Gebert et al. 2008; DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.07.013).

            Please note: MolYsis™ Plus is not available anymore, please use MolYsis™ Complete 5 with a 1:10 dilution as described above.

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