Health care-associated bloodstream infections associated with negative- Or positive-pressure or displacement mechanical valve needleless connectors

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1821-1827

  Jarvis, William R ^a,i   Murphy, Cathryn ^e   Hall, Keri K ^c   Fogle, Pamela J ^b   Karchmer, Tobi B ^d,h   Harrington, Glenys ^g   Salgado, Cassandra ^b   Giannetta, Eve T ^c   Cameron, Carol ^f   Sherertz, Robert J ^d  

^a Jason and Jarvis Associates   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f Mater Health Service   (United States)

^g The Alfred   (Australia)

^h BD Diagnostics   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE; ENTEROBACTER; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; WARD; YEAST;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS;

EID: 72049126603     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648418     Document Type: Article

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