Detection of catheter-related bloodstream infections by the Gram stain-acridine orange leukocyte cytospin test in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 595-599

  Abdelkefi, A ^a   Achour, W ^a   Torjman, L ^a   Ben Othman, T ^a   Ladeb, S ^a   Lakhal, A ^a   Allouche, H ^a   Ben Hassen, A ^a   Ben Abdeladhim, A ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Catheter related bloodstream infection; Central venous catheter; Gram stain acridine orange leukocyte cytospin; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; CYTOTOXIC ANTIBODY; POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOMA; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; SEPSIS; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENAZINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TUNISIA;

EID: 33644931646     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705293     Document Type: Article

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