1. A plasma expander related Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak
- Author
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Paolo Villari, Adrio Penni, Giovanni Battista Orsi, Vanessa Mondillo, Mario Venditti, Massimo Fabiani, and Carolina Marzuillo
- Subjects
Microbiology (medical) ,Cross Infection/etiology ,Plasma Substitutes ,Bacteremia ,medicine.disease_cause ,Neurosurgical Procedures ,Microbiology ,law.invention ,Disease Outbreaks ,Postoperative Complications ,Tap water ,law ,Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ,Humans ,Medicine ,Pseudomonas Infections ,Cross Infection ,Infection Control ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,biology ,business.industry ,Pseudomonas aeruginosa ,Pseudomonas Infections/epidemiology ,Outbreak ,Electrophoresis Gel Pulsed-Field ,Pseudomonas Infections/epidemiology, Electrophoresis Gel Pulsed-Field, Disease Outbreaks, Cross Infection/etiology ,General Medicine ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Intensive care unit ,Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field ,Infectious Diseases ,Immunology ,Pseudomonadales ,Gelatin ,business ,Pseudomonadaceae - Abstract
Nine patients developed P. aeruginosa bloodstream infection (BSI) in a neurosurgical intensive care unit (NSICU) during a 2-month period. Environmental strains were isolated from a plasma-expander solution and tap water. All clinical and plasma-expander strains displayed the same PFGE pattern, whereas the water strains were unrelated to the outbreak.
- Published
- 2006