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Outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bloodstream infection at an outpatient hematology and oncology practice.

Abe K, D'Angelo MT, Sunenshine R, Noble-Wang J, Cope J, Jensen B, Srinivasan A

Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Atlanta, GA, USA. kabe@cdc.gov

We investigated an outbreak of infection in 10 patients with blood cultures positive for B. cepacia. All patients had indwelling intravenous catheters. Though we did not identify the source of the organism, our findings support the hypothesis that cross-contamination of multidose medications through the use of the same needle and syringe was a contributing factor.

Published 10 October 2007 in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 28(11): 1311-3.
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