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3519668

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-6-27
pubmed:abstractText
Pseudomonas mesophilica was isolated from fungal blood cultures of two bone marrow transplant recipients who consecutively occupied the same room. The isolation of P. mesophilica was temporally associated with febrile illness in these two granulocytopenic patients at 1 and 3 weeks posttransplant. A third patient, housed separately on the same bone marrow transplant unit, had nasopharyngeal colonization by this organism. Epidemiologic risk factors in common included staff, medications, and oral and perineal irrigations with tap water. Surveillance cultures detected P. mesophilica in none of 24 pharmaceutical preparations and in 10 of 40 tap water samples (100 to 600 CFU/ml) from implicated and control rooms on the same floor. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of 14 patients and environmental isolates by agar dilution revealed similar profiles; some environmental isolates exhibited higher MICs. Because of restrictive nutritional and temperature requirements, P. mesophilica is undetected by many clinical laboratory protocols and may represent a previously undetected source of febrile illness in neutropenic patients.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1052-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of Pseudomonas mesophilica as a source of nosocomial infections in a bone marrow transplant unit.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports