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Stanley Lowenbraun, MD; Viola Young, PhD; Delores Kenton; Arthur A. Serpick, MD

JAMA. 1970;212(3):451-453.

Abstract
Intravenous indwelling scalp-vein needles were cultured in a population with neoplastic disease. Twenty-four of the 74 needles cultured were positive; microorganisms generally considered pathogenic grew from 7 of these needles. The latter organisms included Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans, -hemolytic Streptococcus, and group D Streptococcus. Infected scalpvein needles were the bacteriologic source in one case of septicemia and one case of cellulitis. There was a trend toward increasing incidence of growth with increasing duration of needle placement.

Author Affiliations
From the medical and microbiology services, Baltimore Cancer Research Center, National Cancer Institute, Baltimore.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 3100 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore 21211 (Dr. Lowenbraun).

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