Value of differential quantitative blood cultures in the diagnosis of catheter-related sepsis

Stamm WE: Infections related with medical devices. Annals of Internal Medicine 1978, 89: 764–769.

Ryan JA, Abel RM, Abbott WM, Hopkins CC, McC. Chesney T, Colley R, Phillips K, Fischer J: Catheter complications in total parenteral nutrition. A prospective study of 200 consecutive patients. New England Journal of Medicine 1974, 290: 757–761.

Derbyshire PJ, Weightman NC, Speller DC: Problems associated with indwelling central venous catheter. Archives of Diseases in Childhood 1986, 60: 129–134.

Corona ML, Peters SG, Narr BJ, Thompson RL: Infections related to central venous catheters. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1990, 65: 979–986.

Wing EJ, Norden CW, Shadduck RK, Winkelstein A: Use of quantitative bacteriologic techniques to diagnosis catheter-related sepsis. Archives of Internal Medicine 1979, 139: 482–483.

Andremont A, Paulet R, Nitenberg G, Hill C: Value of semiquantitative cultures of blood drawn through catheter hubs for estimating the risk of catheter tip colonization in cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1988, 26: 2297–2299.

Benezra D, Kiehn TE, Gold JWM, Brown AE, Tirnbull ADM, Armstrong D: Prospective study of infections in indwelling central venous catheters using quantitative blood cultures. American Journal of Medicine 1989, 85: 495–498.

Fan ST, Teoh-Chan CH, Lau KF: Evaluation of central venous catheter sepsis by differential quantitative blood culture. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 1989, 8: 142–144.

Flynn PM, Shenep JL, Barrett FF: Differential quantitation with a commercial blood culture tube for diagnosis of catheter-related infection. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1988, 2: 1045–1046.

Mosca R, Curtas S, Forbes B, Meguid MM: The benefits of Isolator cultures in the management of suspected catheter sepsis. Surgery 1987, 102: 718–720.

Moyer MA, Edwards LD, Farley L: Comparative culture methods on 101 intravenous catheters. Archives of Internal Medicine 1983, 143: 66–69.

Padberg FT, Ruggiero J, Blackburn GL, Bistrian GR: Central venous catheterization for parenteral nutrition. Annals of Surgery 1981, 193: 264–270.

Paya CV, Guerra L, Marsh HM, Farnell MB, Washington J, Thompson RL: Limited usefulness of quantitative culture of blood drawn through the device for diagnosis of intravascular device-related bacteremia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1989, 27: 1431–1433.

Raucher HS, Hyatt AC, Barzilai A, Harris MB, Weiner MA, LeLeiko NS, Hodes DS: Quantitative blood cultures in the evaluation of septicemia in children with Broviac catheters. Journal of Pediatrics 1984, 104: 29–33.

Weightman NC, Simpson EM, Speller DCE, Mott MG, Okhill A: Bacteremia related to indwelling central venous catheters: prevention, diagnosis and treatment. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 1988, 7: 125–129.

Whimbey E, Wong B, Kiehn TE, Armstrong D: Clinical correlations of serial quantitative blood cultures determined by lysis-centrifugation in patients with persistent septicemia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1984, 19: 766–771.

Collignon PJ, Munro R: Laboratory diagnosis of intravascular catheter associated sepsis. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 1989, 8: 807–814.

Maki DG, Weise CE, Serafin HW: A semiquantitative culture method for identifying intravenous-catheter-related infection. New England Journal of Medicine 1977, 296: 1305–1309.

Cleri DJ, Corrado ML, Seligman SJ: Quantitative culture of intravenous catheters and other intravascular inserts. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1980, 141: 781–786.

Syndman DR, Gorbea HF, Poberr BR, Makja JA, Murray SA, Perry LK: Predictive value of surveillance skin cultures in total-parenteral nutrition-related infection. Lancet 1982, ii: 1385–1388.

Liñares J, Sitges-Serra A, Garau J, Pérez JL, Martín R: Pathogenesis of catheter sepsis: a prospective study with quantitative and semiquantitative cultures of catheter hub and segments. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1985, 21: 357–360.

Cercenado E, Ena J, Rodríguez-Créixems M, Romero I, Bouza E: A conservative procedure for the diagnosis of catheter-related infections. Archives of Internal Medicine 1990, 150: 1417–1420.

Brun-Buisson C: Limitations of semiquantitative method for catheter culture. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1988, 26: 1075.

Collignon PJ, Soni N, Pearson IY, Woods WP, Munro R, Sorrell TC: Is semiquantitative culture of central vein catheter tips useful in the diagnosis of catheter-associated bacteremia? Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1986, 24: 532–535.

Cooper G, Hopkins CC: Rapid diagnosis of intravascular catheter-associated infections by direct gram staining of catheter segments. New England Journal of Medicine 1985, 312: 1142–1146.