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Nosocomial Bacteremia in HIV Patients: The Role of Peripheral Venous Catheters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Olivier Lambotte ,
Jean-Christophe Lucet ,
Laurent Fleury ,
Marie-Laure Joly-Guillou  and
Elisabeth Bouvet
Olivier Lambotte
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Department, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France
Jean-Christophe Lucet
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France
Laurent Fleury
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Department, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France
Marie-Laure Joly-Guillou
Affiliation:
Microbiology Department, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France
Elisabeth Bouvet*
Affiliation:
Infectious Diseases Department, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France
*
Clinique de Réanimation et de Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bichat Claude Bernard, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75877 Paris Cedex 18, France
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Abstract

A retrospective case-control study compared 40 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with 43 nosocomial bacteremias (NB) to 77 HIV-infected patients without NB. Presence of a peripheral venous catheter (PVC) was associated with occurrence of NB and was significantly more frequent in NB without an identified source. PVCs probably are an underestimated source of NB in HIV-infected patients.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , May 2000 , pp. 330 - 333
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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