Diving deep for the needle in the haystack: An outbreak investigation of Burkholderia cenocepacia bacteremia.

Autor: Ghafur A; Infectious Diseases, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Balaguru P; Infectious Diseases, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Ramanan SG; Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Rajendranath R; Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Raj R; Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Zehran M; Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Raja T; Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Easow JM; Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Srinivasan S; Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Devaprasad D; Critical Care, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Sukumar T; Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Nilgar P; Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Sakthivel K; Pharmacy, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Nirumal RM; Pharmacy, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Chandra K; Infection Control, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Lakshmi SV; Microbiology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Teynampet, Chennai., Sethuraman N; Microbiology, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai., Devi Bakthavatchalam Y; Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore., Veeraraghavan B; Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infection control and hospital epidemiology [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol] 2024 May; Vol. 45 (5), pp. 677-680. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 04.
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.241
Abstrakt: In an Indian oncology setting, between August and December 2021, 56 patients, developed Burkholderia cenocepacia bacteremia. An investigation revealed a contaminated batch of the antiemetic drug palonosetron. The outbreak was terminated by withdrawing the culprit batch and the findings were reported promptly to regulatory authorities.
Databáze: MEDLINE