. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2017 Jul 5;31(3):551–559. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2017.05.007

Table 1.

Comparison of CRBSI and CLABSI

CRBSI

Clinical signs of sepsis and positive peripheral blood culture in absence of an obvious source other than CVC with one of the following:

Positive semi-quantitative (>15 CFU) or quantitative (>10³ CFU) culture from a catheter segment with the same organisms isolated peripherally
Simultaneous quantitative blood cultures with a ratio of ≥3:1 (CVC vs. peripheral)
Time to culture positivity difference no more than 2h between CVC cultures and peripheral cultures

CLABSI

Primary bloodstream infection in a patient that had a central line within the 48-hour period before development