Abstract
An intraluminal culture method was evaluated for central venous catheters and compared to conventional catheter tip cultures and cultures from the insertion site. The colonization-rate of the catheters was 43·7% using conventional tip culture, 34·4% with the intraluminal method and 40·1% at the skin puncture site. Only 37·5% of the catheters showed identical bacteria at the skin puncture site and catheter-tip, compared with 87·5% between intraluminal culture and catheter-tip culture ( P < 0·05).
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