The Potential Use of Blood Culture Systems for Diagnosing Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

Abstrakt

Authors present a new microbiological method for the quantitative analysis of intravascular catheter infections using blood culture systeme. The number of bacteria present o an intravascular catheter surface was determined by the time to detection of positivity in a blood culture bottle inoculated with a suspension of bacteria shaken from the catheter surface.

In comparison to the current procedures the new method is easier, faster, and capable of detecting.

Klíčová slova

• Catheter-related infection
• sepsis
• microbiological diagnosis
• blood culture systeme