Central venous catheter-related infections caused by Corynebacterium amycolatum and other multiresistant non-diphtherial corynebacteria in paediatric oncology patients

ABSTRACT Bloodstream and venous catheter-related corynebacterial infections in paediatric patients with haematological cancer were investigated from January 2003 to December 2014 at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We observed that during cancer treatment, invasive...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Vianna de Carvalho, Fernanda Ferreira da Silva Lima, Cíntia Silva dos Santos, Mônica Cristina de Souza, Rondinele Santos da Silva, Ana Luiza de Mattos-Guaraldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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