Prospective study on central venous line associated bloodstream infections

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 827-831

  Wagner, Mine ^a   Bonhoeffer, Jan ^a   Erb, Thomas O ^a   Glanzmann, René ^a   Häcker, Frank Martin ^a   Paulussen, Michael ^a   Weibel, Daniel ^a   Heininger, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SILASTIC TUBE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS; SURGICAL PATIENT;

BACTEREMIA; CANDIDEMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 80051810004     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.208595     Document Type: Article

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