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| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
6
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
2001-3-13
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| pubmed:abstractText |
Escherichia coli has seldom been reported to cause pseudobacteremia. The investigation of an outbreak of amoxycillin-clavulanic acid-resistant E. coli pseudobacteremia is described. Seventeen cases occurred over a five-day period. The source of the E. coli was traced to the blood culture specimen of a patient (index patient) with genuine bacteremia as a result of urinary tract infection. The other 16 case-patients had pseudobacteremia which was found to be the result of cross-contamination during subculture of blood specimens. The E. coli strain was carried over from the culture bottle of the index patient, through the contaminated gloved hands of a technician to the culture bottles of the other 16 cases. Although the pseudobacteremia occurred over a five-day period, they all resulted from cross-contamination during blood culture processing within one day. An early outbreak investigation was prompted by the unusual finding of amoxycillin-clavulanic acid resistance in the case E. coli isolates in a short period. The relatedness of the E. coli strains from the 17 cases was confirmed by arbitrary-primed polymerase chain reaction. Clinicians should be alerted to the possibility of a blood E. coli isolate being a contaminant despite its predominant role as a true pathogen.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:chemical | |
| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Jun
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| pubmed:issn |
0366-6999
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
111
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
570-6
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination,
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Ampicillin Resistance,
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Bacteremia,
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Bacteriological Techniques,
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Culture Media,
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Diagnostic Errors,
pubmed-meshheading:11245082-Escherichia coli
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| pubmed:year |
1998
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Pseudobacteremia with amoxycillin-clavulanic acid-resistant Escherichia coli traced to cross-contamination during blood culture processing.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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