TABLE II.

Characteristics of 17 Patients With Bacteremia, Sepsis, or Septic Shock

Gender	Age	WBC at placement (/mm3)	ANC at placement (/mm3)	BMI	Type of catheter	Infection	Day of infection	ANC at infection (/mm3)	Organism	CVC-related infection using time-to-detection criteria
F	2 years	19,300	300	20	SLTC	Bacteremia	8	0	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Indeterminate
M	15 years	4,300	200	21	SLTC	Bacteremia	9	100	Staphylococcus aureus	Indeterminate
M	10 days	1,700	700	15	SLTC	Bacteremia	10	0	Coagulase neg staphylococcus	Indeterminate
F	2 years	5,900	177	20	SLTC	Bacteremia	11	0	Viridans streptococcus	Not catheter-related
M	3 years	60,000	3,900	15	SLTC	Bacteremia	11	0	Streptococcus mitis	Indeterminate
M	9 years	4,300	100	20	TIAPa	Bacteremia	12	0	Acinetobacter baumannii	Indeterminate
F	3 years	4,400	400	18	SLTC	Septic shock	12	100	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Indeterminate
F	3 years	43,500	500	16	SLTC	Sepsis	13	0	Bacillus cereus	Not catheter-related
M	3 years	2,500	0	15	SLTC	Bacteremia	13	0	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Not catheter-related
F	2 years	8,500	200	15	SLTC	Bacteremia	14	0	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Not catheter-related
M	15 years	8,600	100	33	SLTC	Septic shock	15	0	Escherichia coli	Catheter-related
F	2 years	41,600	700	17	SLTC	Bacteremia	16	0	Neisseria cineria	Indeterminate
F	14 years	98,000	1,500	22	TIAPa	Bacteremia	17	0	Escherichia coli	Indeterminate
F	2 years	6,300	900	13	SLTC	Bacteremia	17	100	Streptococcus sanguis	Indeterminate
M	12 years	3,300	500	14	SLTC	Septic shock	19	100	Staphylococcus aureus	Not catheter-related
F	3 years	8,400	168	24	SLTC	Bacteremia	25	0	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Indeterminate
M	12 years	1,700	400	32	SLTC	Bacteremia	26	0	Coagulase neg staphyloccocus	Indeterminate

SLTC, single lumen tunneled catheters; CVC, central venous catheter.

^aInfusaport.