Relevance of the Number of Positive Bottles in Determining Clinical Significance of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Blood Cultures

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are the most commonly isolated contaminants from blood cultures, yet they frequently cause true infections. Determining the clinical significance of CNS is difficult, and clinicians often consider the number of positive bottles within a set of blood culture bot...

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Main Authors: Mirrett, Stanley, Weinstein, Melvin P., Reimer, Larry G., Wilson, Michael L., Reller, L. Barth
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2001
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88331/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11526163
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.39.9.3279-3281.2001
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