Infection risk associated with a closed luer access device

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 479-

  Widmer, A ^a   Bolliger, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; POLYMER; POLYURETHAN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE INFECTION; DISINFECTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT SAFETY; SAMPLE SIZE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

2-PROPANOL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 33745685606     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2006.02.019     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. Adams D., Karpanen T., Worthington T., Lambert P., and Elliott T.S. Infection risk associated with a closed luer access device. J Hosp Infect 62 (2006) 353-357
2. Widmer A.F. Infections and sepsis due to intravascular catheters. Internist (Berl) 46 (2005) 643-651
3. Arduino M.J., Bland L.A., Danzig L.E., McAllister S.K., and Aguero S.M. Microbiologic evaluation of needleless and needle-access devices. Am J Infect Control 25 (1997) 377-380
4. Khatib R., Riederer K.M., Clark J.A., Khatib S., Briski L.E., and Wilson F.M. Coagulase-negative staphylococci in multiple blood cultures: strain relatedness and determinants of same-strain bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol 33 (1995) 816-820