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- Richard J. Everts
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- Emily N. Vinson
- <!--label omitted: 1-->Clinical Microbiology Laboratory,1 Duke University Medical Center, and
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- Paul O. Adholla
- <!--label omitted: 1-->Clinical Microbiology Laboratory,1 Duke University Medical Center, and
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- L. Barth Reller
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説明
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p> To assess the risk of contamination, we reviewed retrospectively 1,408 matched pairs of simultaneous catheter-drawn and venipuncture blood cultures. Catheter-drawn cultures were equally likely to be truly positive (14.4 versus 13.7%) but more likely to be contaminated (3.8 versus 1.8% [ <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 0.001]). Direct venipuncture cultures are preferred. </jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology 39 (9), 3393-3394, 2001-09
American Society for Microbiology