LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Central venous catheter-related infections caused by Corynebacterium amycolatum and other multiresistant non-diphtherial corynebacteria in paediatric oncology patients

Carvalho, Ricardo Vianna de; Lima, Fernanda Ferreira da Silva; Santos, Cíntia Silva dos; Souza, Mônica Cristina de; Silva, Rondinele Santos da; Mattos-Guaraldi, Ana Luiza de.

Braz. j. infect. dis; 22 (4), 2018

ABSTRACT Bloodstream and venous catheter-related corynebacterial infections in paediatric patients with haematological cancer were investigated from January 2003 to December 2014 at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We observed that during cancer treatment, invasive coryn...

Distribución por Edad, Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico, Bacteriemia/epidemiología, Bacteriemia/microbiología, Brasil/epidemiología, Infecciones Relacionadas con Catéteres/tratamiento farmacológico, Infecciones Relacionadas con Catéteres/epidemiología, Infecciones Relacionadas con Catéteres/microbiología, Catéteres Venosos Centrales/microbiología, Corynebacterium/aislamiento & purificación, Infecciones por Corynebacterium/complicaciones, Infecciones por Corynebacterium/tratamiento farmacológico, Neoplasias Hematológicas/epidemiología, Neoplasias Hematológicas/microbiología, Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana, Distribución por Sexo, Vancomicina/uso terapéutico

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Microbiological testing of devices used in maintaining peripheral venous catheters

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the use of peripheral venous catheters based on microbiological analysis of devices (dressing and three-way stopcocks) and thus contribute to the prevention and infection control. Methods: this was a prospective study of microbiological analysis of 30 three-way stopcocks...