Should the guidelines for management of central venous catheters in patients with candidemia be changed now?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 304-306

  Brass, Eric P ^a,c   Edwards Jr , John E ^b,c,d  

^a Center for Clinical Pharmacology   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

BIOFILM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDEMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUTROPENIA; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; FUNGEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954742465     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653936     Document Type: Note

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