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There are mainly two disadvantages about blood culture, on the one hand, the blood culture time is long, because the average positive alarm time is 2–3 days (range 1 to ≥ 7 days), plus identification and susceptibility test duration 4 to 6 days, on the other hand, it is not sensitive than PCR with much lower detection limit when Candida concentration is ≤ 1 CFU/mL and easy to have failure to detect in extremely low concentrations of candidiasis, intermittent candidiasis or deep Candida infection has not entered the blood. |