Epidemiologic investigation of a 2007 outbreak of Serratia marcescens bloodstream infection in Texas caused by contamination of syringes prefilled with heparin and saline

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 593-595

  Su, John R ^a,d   Blossom, David B ^a   Chung, Wendy ^b   Gullion, Jessica Smartt ^c   Pascoe, Neil ^d   Heseltine, Gary ^d   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Department of Health and Human Services ^*  (United States)

^c Denton County Health Department   (United States)

^d TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GRANISETRON; HEPARIN; INFUSION FLUID; PALONOSETRON; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYRINGE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYRINGES; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651091650     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597383     Document Type: Article

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