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Table 2.

Blood stream infection in the first year on hemodialysis in incident HD patients

	All	Catheters	Fistulas	Grafts
Patients with BSI/Total Patients	3327/25003 (13.3%)	2968/19622 (15.1%)	267/4151 (6.4%)	92/1230 (7.5%)
Total no. of BSI Episodes	5441	4798	490	153
Median Time to 1^st BSI (d) ^*	87	85	111	116.5
BSI Rates/1000-days	0.99	1.27	0.37^*	0.39^**

Note: Patients are from a US nationwide sample admitted to Fresenius Medical Care

North America facilities between January 1 and December 31, 2007.

BSI, bloodstream infection. HD, hemodialysis

in patients with BSI-positive blood culture results.

^**

p<0.001 compared to catheters