A randomized and prospective study of 3 procedures for the diagnosis of catheter-related bloodstream infection without catheter withdrawal

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 820-826

  Bouza, Emilio ^a   Alvarado, Neisa ^a   Alcalá, Luis ^a   Pérez, Maria Jesús ^a   Rincón, Cristina ^a   Muñoz, Patricia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; METICILLIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTICEMIA;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33847611134     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511865     Document Type: Article

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