Time to and differential time to blood culture positivity for assessing catheter‐related yeast fungaemia: A longitudinal, 7‐year study in a single university hospital

Maud Gits-Muselli (1, 2, 3, 4) , Stephane Villiers (3) , Samia Hamane (3) , Béatrice Berçot (5, 6) , Jean-Luc Donay (7) , Blandine Denis (8) , Nicolas Guigue (3) , Alexandre Alanio (3, 1, 2, 4) , Stéphane Bretagne (3, 1, 2, 4)

1 CNRMA - Centre National de Référence Mycoses Invasives et Antifongiques - National Reference Center Invasive Mycoses & Antifungals
2 Mycologie moléculaire - Molecular Mycology
3 Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie [CHU Saint Louis, Paris]
4 USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
5 IAME (UMR_S_1137 / U1137) - Infection, Anti-microbiens, Modélisation, Evolution
6 Groupe Hospitalier Saint Louis - Lariboisière - Fernand Widal [Paris]
7 Service de microbiologie [Saint-Louis]
8 Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales [CHU Saint Louis]

Time to positivity (TTP) and differential time to positivity (DTTP) between central and peripheral blood cultures are commonly used for bacteraemia to evaluate the likelihood of central venous catheter (CVC)-related bloodstream infection. Few studies have addressed these approaches to yeast fungaemia.

Keywords: blood cultures; candidaemia; central venous catheter; diagnosis; differential time to positivity; time to positivity; yeast fungaemia

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Maud Gits-Muselli, Stephane Villiers, Samia Hamane, Béatrice Berçot, Jean-Luc Donay, et al.. Time to and differential time to blood culture positivity for assessing catheter‐related yeast fungaemia: A longitudinal, 7‐year study in a single university hospital. Mycoses, 2019, ⟨10.1111/myc.13024⟩. ⟨pasteur-02418220⟩