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Sources and outcome of bloodstream infections in cancer patients: the role of central venous catheters

Issam Raad, Ray Hachem, Hend Hanna, Paul Bahna, Ioannis Chatzinikolaou, Xiang Fang, Ying Jiang, Roy F. Chemaly, K. V. I. Rolston

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases · 2007 · 61 citations · 32 references

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Guidelines for the Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

Leonard A. Mermel, Barry M. Farr, Robert J. Sherertz et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2001 · 1.5K citations

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Prevention of Central Venous Catheter-Related Infections by Using Maximal Sterile Barrier Precautions during Insertion

Issam Raad, David C. Hohn, B. Joyce Gilbreath et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 1994 · 720 citations

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Current Trends in the Epidemiology of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Patients with Hematological Malignancies and Solid Neoplasms in Hospitals in the United States

Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Harald Seifert, Richard P. Wenzel et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2003 · 698 citations · Full text

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Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia According to Compliance with Recommendations of Infectious Diseases Specialists: Experience with 244 Patients

Vance G. Fowler, Linda Sanders, Daniel J. Sexton et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases · 1998 · 438 citations

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Diagnosis of catheter-related bacteraemia: a prospective comparison of the time to positivity of hub-blood versus peripheral-blood cultures

François Blot, Gérard Nitenberg, Elisabeth Chachatty et al. · The Lancet · 1999 · 437 citations

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