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How to discriminate contamination from bloodstream infection due to coagulase- negative staphylococci: a prospective study with 654 patients  L. Elzi,

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1 How to discriminate contamination from bloodstream infection due to coagulase- negative staphylococci: a prospective study with 654 patients  L. Elzi, B. Babouee, N. Vögeli, R. Laffer, M. Dangel, R. Frei, M. Battegay, A.F. Widmer  Clinical Microbiology and Infection  Volume 18, Issue 9, Pages E355-E361 (September 2012) DOI: /j x Copyright © 2012 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

2 FIG. 1 Algorithm to evaluate the clinical significance of a single blood culture positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) based on the presence of a central venous catheter (CVC) and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria. Clinical Microbiology and Infection  , E355-E361DOI: ( /j x) Copyright © 2012 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions


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