Burkholderia cepacia-contaminated dentures possibly cause pneumonia.
| Autor: | Matsumoto S; Department of Intensive Care Unit, Yamaguchi University Hospital, 1-1-1 Minamikogusi, Ube 755-8505, Japan E-mail: oie@rs.socu.ac.jp., Morikage N; Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery and Clinical Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Minamikogusi, Ube 755-8505, Japan., Oie S; Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sanyo-Onoda City University, 1-1-1, Daigakudori, Sanyo-Onoda 756-0884, Japan. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of water and health [J Water Health] 2023 Jun; Vol. 21 (6), pp. 826-830. |
| DOI: | 10.2166/wh.2023.052 |
| Abstrakt: | We report a case in which a patient was suspected of developing pneumonia due to wearing dentures that were immersed in a storage solution contaminated with 3.0 × 10 8 colony-forming units (cfu)/mL of Burkholderia cepacia. It is highly possible that the contaminated denture solution entered the trachea and caused the pneumonia, possibly due to the prolonged supine positioning of the patient. We demonstrated that B. cepacia isolated from the sputum and B. cepacia isolated from the denture storage solution had the same DNA fingerprint, and that the patient recovered from pneumonia after stopping the use of dentures. These findings suggest the storage solution as the main source of infection. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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