Sonication for Diagnosis of Catheter-Related Infection Is Not Better Than Traditional Roll-Plate Culture: A Prospective Cohort Study With 975 Central Venous Catheters | Zendy

Stefan Erb | Zendy; Reno Frei | Zendy; Katharina Schregenberger | Zendy; Marc Dangel | Zendy; Danica Nogarth | Zendy; Andreas F. Widmer | Zendy

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Sonication for Diagnosis of Catheter-Related Infection Is Not Better Than Traditional Roll-Plate Culture: A Prospective Cohort Study With 975 Central Venous Catheters

Author(s) -

Stefan Erb,

Reno Frei,

Katharina Schregenberger,

Marc Dangel,

Danica Nogarth,

Andreas F. Widmer

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu352

Subject(s) - sonication , medicine , catheter , prospective cohort study , central venous catheter , surgery , bloodstream infection , intensive care medicine , radiology

This prospective randomized controlled study with 975 nontunneled central venous catheters (CVCs) showed that the semiquantitative roll-plate culture technique (SQC) was as accurate as the sonication method for diagnosis of catheter-related infections. Sonication is difficult to standardize, whereas SQC is simpler, faster, and as reliable as the sonication method for culturing CVCs.

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