Evaluating the Clinical Impact of Species-Level Identification in Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Positive Blood Cultures

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ahmad Hamdan (مؤلف), Gabriela Andujar-Vazquez (مؤلف), Maureen Campion (مؤلف), Husain Poonawala (مؤلف), Catherine Cebulla (مؤلف), Majd Alsoubani (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Cambridge University Press, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• الموضوعات: article
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Background: Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are often considered contaminants when isolated from blood cultures. While criteria exist to distinguish true bacteremia from contamination (Table 1), clinical judgement is often necessary. Clinical microbiology laboratories have traditionally iden...