Tissue around catheters is a niche for bacteria associated with medical device infection

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2395-2402

  Broekhuizen, Corine A N ^a   Schultz, Marcus J ^b,c   Van Der Wal, Allard C ^d   Boszhard, Laura ^a   De Boer, Leonie ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^a,e   Zaat, Sebastian A J ^a  

^a Department of Medical Microbiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam CINIMA   (Netherlands)

^c Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomaterial associated infection; Enterococcus faecalis, tissue; Pathogenesis; Staphylococcus epidermidis, catheter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TISSUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BIOPSY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOPSY; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 49949112749     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181818268     Document Type: Article

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