Contamination of Catheter-Drawn Blood Cultures
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 39 (9), 3393-3394
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.39.9.3393-3394.2001
Abstract
To assess the risk of contamination, we reviewed retrospectively 1,408 matched pairs of simultaneous catheter-drawn and venipuncture blood cultures. Catheter-drawn cultures were equally likely to be truly positive (14.4 versus 13.7%) but more likely to be contaminated (3.8 versus 1.8% [ P = 0.001]). Direct venipuncture cultures are preferred.Keywords
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