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A retrospective, cohort study of 200 episodes randomly selected from 315 episodes, during 2000-2003, at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, of laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infections among out-patient children with central venous catheters was performed to determine the optimum duration of antibiotic therapy before infection could be reliably excluded.

Excluding Bacteremia in Children with Central Venous Catheters