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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 39, Issue 5, Pages 436-438Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.07.014
Keywords
Bloodstream infection; epidemiology; definition; Enterococcus; skin contaminant
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Enterococci are a common cause of bacteremia but are also common contaminants. In our institution, approximately 17% of positive blood cultures with enterococci are mixed with skin organisms. Such isolates are probable contaminants. The specificity of the current definition of primary bloodstream infection could be increased by excluding enterococci mixed with skin organisms.
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