Time to blood culture positivity as a marker for catheter-related candidemia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2222-2226

  Ben Ami, Ronen ^a,c,d   Weinberger, Miriam ^b,c   Orni Wasserlauff, Ruth ^a,c   Schwartz, David ^a   Itzhaki, Avraham ^b   Lazarovitch, Tzipora ^b   Bash, Edna ^a   Aharoni, Yuval ^a   Moroz, Irina ^a   Giladi, Michael ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDEMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; FUNGEMIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGY; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CANDIDA;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49049117173     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00214-08     Document Type: Article

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