Catheter materials affect the incidence of late blood-borne catheter infection

Surgical Infections

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-230

  Mehall, John R ^a   Saltzman, Daniel A ^a   Jackson, Richard J ^a   Smith, Samuel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; POLYURETHAN; SILASTIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISHER EXACT TEST; INCIDENCE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION RISK; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; FIBRIN; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYURETHANES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICONES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0035689237     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109629601317202704     Document Type: Article

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