Journal article
Prevention of primary bacteraemia.
- Juan-Torres A Division of Infectious Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Harbarth S
- 2007-08-28
Published in:
- International journal of antimicrobial agents. - 2007
Bacteremia
Catheters, Indwelling
Community-Acquired Infections
Cross Infection
Humans
Infection Control
Vaccines
English
This overview provides information on recent advances in the prevention of primary bacteraemia, commonly defined as bloodstream infection without a documented source of infection, but including those resulting from an intravenous or arterial line infection. The potential to prevent community-acquired, primary bacteraemia is still limited and may be targeted mainly at vaccines for high-risk groups. In contrast, the prevention of catheter-related bacteraemia has seen substantial progress within the last 10 years. Consequently, intravascular device-related bacteraemia has become largely preventable under routine working conditions. Independent of the use of antibiotic-coated catheters, the implementation of clinical pathways and multimodal preventive strategies directed at several risk factors of catheter-related bacteraemia is a successful strategy to reduce this potentially life-threatening infection and deserves future health services research.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2007.06.021
- PMID 17719209
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/147269
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