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An outbreak of Bacillus species in a cancer hospital
L C Thuler1, E Velasco, C A de Souza Martins
1Hospital Infection Control Committee, Hospital of Cancer, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|December 1, 1998
Abstract:
Bacillus species were recovered from the blood cultures of 39 oncology patients over 14 weeks. A matched case-control study showed a strong association of Bacillus species bacteremia with use of calcium gluconate solution (odds ratio=25.0) and of central venous lines (odds ratio=8.8). Stopping use of the implicated calcium gluconate vials controlled the outbreak.