Multistate outbreak of Serratia marcescens bloodstream infections caused by contamination of prefilled heparin and isotonic sodium chloride solution syringes

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1705-1711

  Blossom, David ^a,b   Noble Wang, Judith ^a   Su, John ^b,c   Pur, Stacy ^d   Chemaly, Roy ^e   Shams, Alicia ^a   Jensen, Bette ^a   Pascoe, Neil ^c   Gullion, Jessica ^f   Casey, Eric ^c   Hayden, Mary ^d   Arduino, Matthew ^a   Budnitz, Daniel S ^a   Raad, Isaam ^e   Trenholme, Gordon ^d   Srinivasan, Arjun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

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

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f Denton County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYRINGES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 70350071027     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.290     Document Type: Article

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