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Contamination of a milk bank pasteuriser causing a Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit
C Gras-Le Guen1, D Lepelletier, T Debillon
1Département de périnatologie, Hôpital Mère-Enfant, CHU Nantes, France.
Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
|August 26, 2003
Abstract:
An environmental investigation and a cohort study were carried out to analyse an outbreak of infection caused by a serotype O10 Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a neonatal intensive care unit. Thirty one cases of infection were recorded, including four lethal ones. The outbreak was stopped by eradicating the environmental sources: a contaminated milk bank pasteuriser and bottle warmer.
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