Bloodstream infection in neutropenic cancer patients related to short-term nontunnelled catheters determined by quantitative blood cultures, differential time to positivity, and molecular epidemiological typing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 118-123

  Seifert, Harald ^a   Cornely, Oliver ^a   Seggewiss, Kerstin ^a   Decker, Mathias ^a   Stefanik, Danuta ^a   Wisplinghoff, Hilmar ^a   Fätkenheuer, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 12244294065     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.1.118-123.2003     Document Type: Article

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