We appreciate the comments of Lizy, Afonso, and Blot about our study of risk factors for secondary bacteremia in patients with catheter-associated bacteriuria. By design, we included only those cases where a clinical blood culture was positive for the same pathogen on the same day or after the urine culture. We excluded candiduria because in critically ill patients, candiduria is commonly a result of candidemia, rather than the cause of it.1 

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