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Postoperative Chryseobacterium indologenes Bloodstream Infection Caused by Contamination of Distillate Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mehmet Refik Bayraktar*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Malatya, Turkey
Elif Aktas
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Malatya, Turkey Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Zonguldak, Turkey
Yasemin Ersoy
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
Aysegul Cicek
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Malatya, Turkey
Riza Durmaz
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Malatya, Turkey
*
Dept. of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey (mrtmehmet@yahoo.com)

Abstract

Chryseobacterium indologenes was isolated from blood samples from a 5-month-old infant with bloodstream infection. Environmental sampling was performed. Molecular typing with arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction demonstrated the cross-contamination of commercial distillate water. The infant was infected by this water as a result of medical assistance received during hospitalization.

Type
Concise Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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