Journal article
Possible Nosocomial Transmission of Pseudomonas cepacia in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, v 148(8), pp 805-812
01 Aug 1994
PMID: 7519103
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether nosocomial transmission of Pseudomonas cepacia occurred at a hospital with endemic P cepacia infection of patients with cystic fibrosis. DESIGN: Two retrospective case-control studies. SETTING: A large pediatric cystic fibrosis center. PARTICIPANTS: To assess risk factors for acquisition of P cepacia, 18 cases, defined as any patient with cystic fibrosis with first documented isolation of P cepacia in 1988 or 1989, were compared with 18 matched P cepacia–negative controls with cystic fibrosis. To assess potential modes of nosocomial P cepacia transmission, 14 cases with a hospitalization(s) between their last P cepacia–negative culture and first P cepacia–positive culture were compared with 14 hospitalized P cepacia–negative controls with cystic fibrosis. METHODS: Handwiping cultures (N=68) and selective environmental cultures were performed. MAIN RESULTS: Cases tended to be more likely than controls to have been hospitalized at the cystic fibrosis center in the 3 months before their first P cepacia–positive culture (P=.08). In addition, cases tended to be more likely than hospitalized controls with cystic fibrosis to have had a P cepacia–positive roommate (P=.06) before becoming colonized with P cepacia organisms. Pseudomonas cepacia was cultured from the hands of two individuals: a P cepacia–colonized patient who had just undergone chest physiotherapy and consequent coughing and the investigator who shook the P cepacia–positive patient's hand after the patient's procedure. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that in this cystic fibrosis center, hospitalization is a risk factor for P cepacia acquisition and that person-to-person transmission of P cepacia may occur in the hospital via hand contact.(Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1994;148:805-812)
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- Title
- Possible Nosocomial Transmission of Pseudomonas cepacia in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis
- Creators
- David A Pegues - National Center for Infectious DiseasesDaniel V SchidlowOfelia C TablanLoretta A CarsonNancye C ClarkWilliam R Jarvis
- Publication Details
- Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, v 148(8), pp 805-812
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pediatrics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1994PB26400005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0028023160
- Other Identifier
- 991021838693804721
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