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Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections: an analysis of incidence and risk factors in a cohort of 400 patients

John Gowardman, Carmel Montgomery, Sarah Thirlwell, Jane Shewan, Albert J. S. Idema, Peter Larsen, J. H. Havill

Intensive Care Medicine · 1998 · 69 citations · 18 references

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A Semiquantitative Culture Method for Identifying Intravenous-Catheter-Related Infection

Dennis G. Maki, Carol E. Weise, Harold W. Sarafin · New England Journal of Medicine · 1977 · 2.1K citations

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Guideline for Prevention of Intravascular-Device-Related Infections

Michele L. Pearson · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 1996 · 537 citations

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Nosocomial infection rates in adult and pediatric intensive care units in the United States

William R. Jarvis, Jonathan R. Edwards, David H. Culver et al. · The American Journal of Medicine · 1991 · 510 citations

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Prospective multicenter study of vascular-catheter-related complications and risk factors for positive central-catheter cultures in intensive care unit patients

Hervé Richet, Bruno Hubert, G. Nitemberg et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 1990 · 331 citations · Full text

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Intravascular catheter associated sepsis: a common problem

Peter Collignon · The Medical Journal of Australia · 1994 · 180 citations

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