“…In spite of these observations, the sampling of peripheral venous blood cultures is not recommended in the current guidelines of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology [ 18 ], [ 90 ], due to inconvenience and anxiety on the patients’ part related to an additional peripheral venous puncture. As a consequence of the missing second independently drawn blood culture, in accordance with standard CDC definitions [ 87 ], Kelly et al [ 10 ] did not include a significant proportion of all detected BSI in pediatric cancer patients in their analysis.…”