Multi-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak associated with contaminated tap water in a neurosurgery intensive care unit

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From July 1995 to November 1996, multi-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa O11 was isolated from 36 patients admitted to a neurosurgery intensive care unit. The strain was resistant to ticarcillin, ceftazidime, imipenem, gentamicin and ciprofloxacin, and susceptible to amikacin. Nine patients were colo ā€¦
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Authors Bert F;Maubec E;Bruneau B;Berry P;Lambert-Zechovsky N;;
Journal The Journal of hospital infection
Year 1998
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9617685
Keywords
National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE gel humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine adult female male adolescent aged middle aged drug resistance Water Supply france microbial sensitivity tests pseudomonas aeruginosa / drug effects* disease outbreaks* intensive care units electrophoresis cross infection / epidemiology* pseudomonas aeruginosa / isolation & purification pulsed-field water microbiology* cross infection / microbiology* pmid:9617685 doi:10.1016/s0195-6701(98)90243-2 f bert e maubec n lambert-zechovsky cross infection / transmission multiple* pseudomonas infections / epidemiology* pseudomonas infections / transmission

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