Central Venous Catheters as a Risk Factor for Disseminated Phaeohyphomycosis?
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Risk of colonization of central venous catheters: catheters for total parenteral nutrition vs other catheters.
BACKGROUND Infected central venous catheters cause morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE To compare the risk for colonization of central venous catheters used for total parenteral nutrition with that of catheters used for other purposes. METHODS Retrospective review of prospectively acquired data on 260 patients with a stay in a surgical intensive care unit longer than 3 days. Single-lumen cat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/342890