How should long-term tunneled central venous catheters be managed in microbiology laboratories in order to provide an accurate diagnosis of colonization?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1003-1007

  Guembe, M ^a   Martin Rabadan P ^a,b   Echenagusia, A ^a   Camunez F ^a   Rodriguez Rosales G ^a   Simo G ^a   Echenagusia, M ^a   Bouza, E ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b RD06/0008/1025 ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER TIP; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLOSTRIDIUM BIFERMENTANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857433076     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05758-11     Document Type: Article

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