Intrinsically contaminated alcohol-free mouthwash implicated in a nosocomial outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia colonization and infection [1]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1281-1282

  Molina Cabrillana, Jesús ^a,e   Bolaños Rivero, Margarita ^b   Alvarez León, Eva E ^a   Martín Sánchez, Antonio M ^b   Sánchez Palacios, Manuel ^c   Alvarez, David ^d   Sáez Nieto, Juan A ^d  

^a Medicine Preventive Service   (Spain)

^b Microbiology Service   (Spain)

^c Intensive Care Unit   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HEXETIDINE;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CONTAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MOUTHWASH; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTHWASHES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPAIN;

EID: 33751321448     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508845     Document Type: Letter

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