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INFECTION WITH PSEUDOMONAS MALTOPHILIA HOSPITAL OUTBREAK DUE TO CONTAMINATED DISINFECTANT
Author(s) -
Wishart Michael M.,
Riley Thomas V.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb128238.x
Subject(s) - cetrimide , disinfectant , chlorhexidine , outbreak , microbiology and biotechnology , pseudomonas aeruginosa , medicine , contamination , cross infection , stenotrophomonas maltophilia , hygiene , urine , veterinary medicine , biology , emergency medicine , bacteria , virology , pathology , dentistry , ecology , genetics
Between August, 1973, and May, 1974, Pseudomonas maltophilia was isolated from 63 patients in the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Subiaco, Western Australia. Primary cultures were obtained mainly from specimens of urine from adults, and from intraarterial catheter tips and umbilical swabs from neonates. In most cases the organism appeared to be a contaminant, but in seven it was responsible for infection. The source of the organism was deionized water used for diluting Savlon concentrate (chlorhexidine, 1·5%; cetrimide, 15%). In the 17 months since the method of preparation and distribution of Savlon to the wards was altered, Ps. maltophilia has not been isolated from either clinical specimens or hospital disinfectants.