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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Polyclonal outbreak of bacteremia caused by Burkholderia cepacia complex and the presumptive role of ultrasound gel
Autores: | Nannini,Esteban C.; Ponessa,Adriana; Muratori,Rosa; Marchiaro,Patricia; Ballerini,Viviana; Flynn,Luis; Limansky,Adriana S.
Data: | 2015-10-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Burkholderia cepacia complex; Outbreak; Bacteremia; Polyclonal.
Resumo: | ABSTRACTA nosocomial polyclonal outbreak associated to bacteremia caused by differentBurkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) species and clones is reported. Molecular characterization identified Burkholderia stabilis, Burkholderia contaminans, and Burkholderia ambifaria among BCC isolates obtained from patients in neonatal and adult intensive care units. BCC was also isolated from an intrinsically contaminated ultrasound gel, which constituted the presumptive BCC source. Prior BCC outbreak related to contaminated ultrasound gels have been described in the setting of transrectal prostate biopsy. Outbreak caused strains and/or clones of BCC have been reported, probably because BCC are commonly found in the natural environment; most BCC species are biofilm producers, and different species may contaminate an environmental source. The finding of multiple species or clones during the analysis of nosocomial BCC cases might not be enough to reject an outbreak from a common source.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000500543
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1016/j.bjid.2015.06.009
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.19 n.5 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess