Catheter retention as a consequence rather than a cause of unfavorable outcome in candidemia

Affiliations

• ¹ Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ² Department of Medicine, HFR-Fribourg Cantonal Hospital, Fribourg, Switzerland.
• ³ Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medical Specialties, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Bacteriology Laboratory, Service of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Oberaargau Hospital, Langenthal, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Zürich University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Laboratory of Microbiological Diagnostics, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Cantonal Hospital, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Parasitology, Center of Laboratory Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hirslanden Klinik, Aarau, Switzerland.
• ¹² Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹³ Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hirslanden Klinik, St. Anna, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ Division of lnfectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene, Cantonal Hospital, Aarau, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ Clinics for Internal Medicine, Hospital Lachen AG, Lachen, Switzerland.
• ¹⁷ Institute of Microbiology, Department of Laboratories, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁸ Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland. [email protected].
• ¹⁹ Department of Medicine, Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte, Morges, Switzerland. [email protected].
• ²⁰ Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland. [email protected].