Colonization of peripheral intravascular catheters with biofilm producing microbes: Evaluation of risk factors.

In the present study hospital stay of more than 7 days and multiple attempts to install IVCs were the significant factors ( P value <0.05) and multidrug resistant microbes was a highly significant factor ( P value<0.01) associated with biofilm production by microbes and emerged out as risk factors of colonization of IVCs by biofilm producing microbes [ Table 2 ].

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