Three-year outbreak of pseudobacteremia with Burkholderia cepacia traced to a contaminated blood gas analyzer

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 737-740

  Gravel Tropper, Denise ^a   Sample, Mary Lee ^a   Oxley, Catherine ^a   Toye, Baldwin ^a,b   Woods, Donald E ^c   Garber, Gary E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; SEROTYPING;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0030281569     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141546     Document Type: Article

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