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Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female of neonates (less than 1 month of age), paediatrics (between 1 month and 17 years of age) or adults (≥18 years of age). * Admitted to ICU, Emergency Department, or other medical wards for acute illness with medical decision to perform blood culture for suspicion of bloodstream Infection. * Two additional EDTA blood sample/s collected from one anatomical site and at the same time as blood culture (two EDTA samples to be collected where possible). * EDTA blood volume is ≥1mL. * EDTA blood sample is stored according to Microbio's stability requirements. Exclusion Criteria: * No suspicion of blood stream infection (BSI). * Any inclusion criterion not met. * Multiple EDTA blood samples from the same patient. * EDTA blood sample not obtained from the same anatomical site and at the same time as the blood culture sample. * Subject has had an antimicrobial drug administered through the same port or central line as is used to collect the specimen. * EDTA blood samples that have not been stored according to Microbio's sample stability requirements. * EDTA blood volume \<1mL.