Development of subsequent bloodstream infections in patients with positive catheter-drawn blood culture results and negative peripheral blood culture results
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Blood culture-based detection of bloodstream infections
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are associated with adverse clinical and health-economic outcomes [1,2]. Th irty to forty percent of all cases of severe sepsis and septic shock are culture-proven BSIs, for which there is a rapid decline in survival rates in cases where inadequate antimicrobial therapy is administered within the fi rst 24 hours [3,4]. As a consequence, clinicians often resort to e...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2010.02.2079