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8452949

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-20
pubmed:abstractText
Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from nine patients (16.2 isolations/1,000 patient-days) in a surgical intensive care unit during an outbreak in November 1990; this rate of isolation was three times higher than that noted previously on this unit. Three patients were infected with the same strain, as defined by identical serotypes, pyocin types, and contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) electrophoresis patterns of digested genomic DNA. The hands of 80 health care workers were cultured, and a strain of P. aeruginosa identical to that infecting the three patients was isolated from the hands of a nurse providing care to all three. Environmental surfaces, medical devices, and ward stock supplies were cultured; none of these cultures yielded this strain. No clusters of infection with this strain or other strains of P. aeruginosa were observed after compliance with hand-washing and universal precautions was reemphasized. Thus this outbreak was linked to the carriage of P. aeruginosa on the hands of a health care worker. It could not be determined definitively whether this carriage was the source of the cluster or a consequence of it. However, the geographic and temporal clustering of carriage with an outbreak due to a strain of an apparently identical molecular type underlines the importance of routine hand washing between contacts with different patients.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1058-4838
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
372-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in a surgical intensive care unit: probable transmission via hands of a health care worker.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.