Pseudo-outbreak of Ochrobactrum anthropi bacteremia related to cross-contamination from erythrocyte sedimentation tubes [2]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 763-765

  Labarca, Jaime A ^a   Garcia, Patricia ^a   Balcells, María Elvira ^a   De La Cerda, Gabriela ^a   Salinas, Ana María ^a   Román, Juan Carlos ^a   Guzmán, Ana María ^a   Pérez, Carlos M ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; OSTEOCHONDRITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHILE; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LABORATORY INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI;

EID: 34250744566     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517979     Document Type: Letter

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