Is semiquantitative culture of central vein catheter tips useful in the diagnosis of catheter-associated bacteremia?

Semiquantitative culturing of catheter tips has been used as an index of catheter-related bacteremia. As the sensitivity and predictive values of this test have not been determined, we studied 780 tips from central vein catheters inserted into 440 critically ill patients in an intensive care unit. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:	J Clin Microbiol
Hauptverfasser:	Collignon, P J, Soni, N, Pearson, I Y, Woods, W P, Munro, R, Sorrell, T C
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1986
Schlagworte:	Research Article
Online-Zugang:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC268965/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3771741/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.24.4.532-535.1986
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