A nosocomial outbreak of Legionella pneumophila caused by contaminated transesophageal echocardiography probes

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 619-622

  Levy, Pierre Yves ^a,c   Teysseire, Nadine ^c   Etienne, Jérôme ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Clinique la Casamance   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CHLORINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0042431620     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502263     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Marston BJ, Lipman HB, Breiman RF. Surveillance for legionnaires' disease: risk factors for morbidity and mortality. Arch Intern Med 1994;154:2417-2422.
2. Yu VL. Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires' disease). In: Mandell, Douglas, Bennett, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, 2000:2424-2435.
3. NFT 90-431: Recherche et Dénombrement des Legionella et Legionella pneumophila. Paris: Agence Française de Normalisation; 1993:808-822.
4. Jaulhac N, Nowicki M, Bornstein N, et al. Detection of Legionella spp. in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by DNA amplification. J Clin Microbiol 1992;30:920-924.
5. Dominguez JA, Manterola JM, Blavia R, et al. Detection of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 antigen in non concentrated urine and concentrated urine by selective ultrafiltration. J Clin Microbiol 1996;34:2234-2236.
6. McDade JE, Shepard CC, Frase DW, Tsai TR, Redus MA, Dowdle WR. Legionnaires' disease: isolation of a bacterium and demonstration of its role in other respiratory disease. N Engl J Med 1977;297:1197-1203.
7. Lawrence C, Ronco E, Dubrou S, Leclercq R, Nauciel C, Matsiota-Bernard P. Molecular typing of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from patients and the nosocomial environment by arbitrarily primed PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Med Microbiol 1999;48:327-333.
8. Tenover FC, Arbeit RD, Goering RV, et al. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J Clin Microbiol 1995;33:2233-2239.
9. Green M, Wald EP, Dashefsky B, Barbadora K, Wadowsky RM. Field inversion gel electrophoresis analysis of Legionella pneumophila strains associated with nosocomial legionellosis in children. J Clin Microbiol 1996;34:175-176.
10. Mitchell DH, Hicks LJ, Chiew R, Montanaro JC, Chen SC. Pseudoepidemic of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 associated with contaminated bronchoscopes. J Hosp Infect 1997;37:19-23.