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Do Prolonged Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Dwell Times Increase the Risk of Bloodstream Infection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Aaron M. Milstone  and
Arnab Sengupta
Aaron M. Milstone*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Arnab Sengupta
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, 200 North Wolfe Street/Rubenstein 3141, Baltimore, MD 21287 (, amilstol@jhmi.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 11 , November 2010 , pp. 1184 - 1187
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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