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Blood culture contamination in hospitalized pediatric patients: a single institution experience
PURPOSE: Blood culture is the most important tool for detecting bacteremia in children with fever. However, blood culture contamination rates range from 0.6% to 6.0% in adults; rates for young children have been considered higher than these, although data are limited, especially in Korea. This study...
Autores principales: | Min, Hyewon, Park, Cheong Soo, Kim, Dong Soo, Kim, Ki Hwan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Korean Pediatric Society
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24868215 http://dx.doi.org/10.3345/kjp.2014.57.4.178 |
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