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Primary bloodstream infection (BSI) is a major infectious complication in critically ill patients, increasing mortality rates, prolonging hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) stays, and raising costs.1 Because use of catheters is so common, the contribution of catheter-related bloodstream infections (C. difficile to CRBSIs) to yearly morbidity is correspondingly high.2
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services. Emerging Infectious Diseases. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/eid/vol10no1/03-0407.htm. Accessed April 1, 2010.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services. Intravascular Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections. Available at: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/dpac_iv.html . Accessed April 1, 2010.
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