Serratia marcescens Outbreak Associated with Extrinsic Contamination of 1% Chloroxylenol Soap
| Autor: | Myrna Schulte, Lennox K. Archibald, Shailen N. Banerjee, Matthew J. Arduino, Donna Fisher, A. Corl, William R. Jarvis, Sonia M. Aguero, Bhavesh Shah, Barbara W. Stechenberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty biology Epidemiology business.industry health care facilities manpower and services education Outbreak biology.organism_classification Chorioamnionitis medicine.disease Low birth weight Infectious Diseases Internal medicine Serratia marcescens medicine Infection control Colonization medicine.symptom business Intensive care medicine Contact tracing |
| Zdroj: | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 19:476-476 |
| ISSN: | 1559-6834 0899-823X |
| DOI: | 10.1086/647845 |
| Popis: | Objectives:To determine risk factors for Serratia marcescens infection or colonization, and to identify the source of the pathogen and factors facilitating its persistence in a neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) during an outbreak.Design:Retrospective case-control study; review of NICU infection control policies, soap use, and hand-washing practices among healthcare workers (HCWs); and selected environmental cultures.Setting:A university-affiliated tertiary-care hospital NICU.Patients:All NICU infants with at least one positive culture for S marcescens during August 1994 to October 1995. Infants who did not develop S marcescens infection or colonization were selected randomly as controls.Results:Thirty-two patients met the case definition. On multivariate analysis, independent risk factors for S marcescens infection or colonization were having very low birth weight ( |
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