Detection of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections by the Differential-Time-to-Positivity Method and Gram Stain-Acridine Orange Leukocyte Cytospin Test in Neutropenic Patients after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 42 (10), 4835-4837
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.42.10.4835-4837.2004
Abstract
For febrile neutropenic patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the Gram stain-acridine orange leukocyte cytospin (AOLC) test and the differential-time-to-positivity method (DTP) were performed. As a diagnostic tool for catheter-related bloodstream infections in these patients, the Gram stain-AOLC test has a lower sensitivity than does the DTP method but acceptable positive and negative predictive values.Keywords
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