Prolonged outbreak of clonal MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa on an intensive care unit: contaminated sinks and contamination of ultra-filtrate bags as possible route of transmission?

BACKGROUND: We report on an outbreak in a surgical, interdisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care hospital. We detected a cluster of ICU patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We established an outbreak investigation team, performed an explor...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Salm, Florian, Deja, Maria, Gastmeier, Petra, Kola, Axel, Hansen, Sonja, Behnke, Michael, Gruhl, Désirée, Leistner, Rasmus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0157-9

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0157-9

Ejemplares similares