Control of Bacteraemia from Indwelling Central Venous Catheters

With?Va'' anc' 'atter w'" include those bacteraemias : n no obvious clinical source which are known to occur (^Patients with malignant disease and no catheters (7). to ^rit'tative blood cultures have been successfully used the 'a9nose catheter-related bacteraemia (8), obviating dir need f?r catheter-removal. A technique involving (9)ect inoculation of blood on to agar has been described cath co'onV counts in samples taken through the b|0 0ter re'ative to those in samples from peripheral tpr implicating the catheter as the source of the bacwemia9ern' at>ility to diagnose catheter-related bacterUn^'9' its pathogenesis can be investigated and an t0 erstanding of the source of these infections may lead tieb V0ntat've measures being taken. There is however aerr,ate OVer pathogenesis of catheter-related bacteria 'a* f'ora at the catheter insertion site has been