Central Venous Catheter–associated Nocardia Bacteremia in Cancer Patients

Central venous catheters, often needed by cancer patients, can be the source of Nocardia bacteremia. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of 17 cancer patients with Nocardia bacteremia. For 10 patients, the bacteremia was associated with the catheter; for the other 7, it was a diss...

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Autores principales: Al Akhrass, Fadi, Hachem, Ray, Mohamed, Jamal A., Tarrand, Jeffrey, Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P., Chandra, Jyotsna, Ghannoum, Mahmoud, Haydoura, Souha, Chaftari, Ann Marie, Raad, Issam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21888790
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1709.101810

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21888790
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1709.101810

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