The Positive Predictive Value of Isolating Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci from Blood Cultures
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Lack of predictive value of isolating coagulase-negative staphylococci from blood cultures.
SIR-Berwaldt et al. [1] reported that, in their intensive care unit, 26.4% of patients whose Isolator (Wampole Laboratories, Cranbury, NJ) blood cultures yielded coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) had true bloodstream infections. These authors defined infection according to a set of criteria. They then analyzed their findings to determine the variables associated with infection. A basic fau...
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BACKGROUND Little published data are available on the epidemiology and significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) in blood culture isolates among critically ill adult patients. OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology and frequency of CoNS blood culture isolates in critically ill adults, and investigate the association between time to positivity (TTP) of blood cultures and number ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.1.14