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Outbreak of Nosocomial Burkholderia cepacia Infection and Colonization Associated With Intrinsically Contaminated Mouthwash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Linda Matrician ,
Gretehen Ange ,
Sonia Burns ,
W. Lee Fanning ,
Clare Kioski ,
Gary D. Cage  and
Kenneth K. Komatsu
Linda Matrician
Affiliation:
Scottsdale Healthcare Infection Control Department, Scottsdale
Gretehen Ange
Affiliation:
Scottsdale Healthcare Infection Control Department, Scottsdale
Sonia Burns*
Affiliation:
Scottsdale Healthcare Infection Control Department, Scottsdale
W. Lee Fanning
Affiliation:
Scottsdale Healthcare Infection Control Department, Scottsdale
Clare Kioski
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology Section, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona
Gary D. Cage
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology Section, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona
Kenneth K. Komatsu
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology Section, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona
*
Scottsdale Healthcare Infection Control, 3634 N Civic Center Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
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Abstract

From August 1996 through June 1998, 69 ventilated, intensive care unit patients at two Arizona hospitals had nosocomial respiratory tract cultures positive for Burkholderia cepacia. Intrinsically contaminated alcohol-free mouthwash was identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis as the source of the outbreak

Type
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 11 , November 2000 , pp. 739 - 741
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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