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Bacterial infection of peripheral artery cannulae in newborn infants
Author(s) -
LESLIE GARTH I.,
BARR PETER A.,
PRITCHARD ROBERT C.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1981.tb01960.x
Subject(s) - medicine , colonization , cannula , klebsiella pneumoniae , incidence (geometry) , meningitis , peripheral , artery , microbiology and biotechnology , surgery , biology , biochemistry , physics , optics , escherichia coli , gene
ABSTRACT. The incidence of bacterial colonization of peripheral artery cannulae in 58 sick newborn infants was documented using a semi‐quantitative culture technique. Of the 86 cannulae inserted, a positive “high‐density” semi‐quantitative culture not related to distant bacteraemia and indicative of local infection was found in nine cannulae (10%) and “low‐density” colonization was found in one cannula (1%). One of the 58 infants died from cannual‐related septicaemia and meningitis due to Klebsiella pneumoniae. Bacterial colonization was significantly more common in cannulae which had been present for more than seven days compared with cannulae present for seven days or less (P<0.05).