Cluster of pseudoinfections with burkholderia cepacia associated with a contaminated washer-disinfector in a bronchoscopy unit

Dror Rosengarten; Colin Block; Carlos Hidalgo-Grass; Violeta Temper; Ilana Gross; Anna Budin-Mizrahi; Neville Berkman; Shmuel Benenson

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Cluster of pseudoinfections with burkholderia cepacia associated with a contaminated washer-disinfector in a bronchoscopy unit

Dror Rosengarten^*, Colin Block, Carlos Hidalgo-Grass, Violeta Temper, Ilana Gross, Anna Budin-Mizrahi, Neville Berkman, Shmuel Benenson

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In December 2008, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples obtained from 3 patients were positive for Burkholderia cepacia complex on culture. Samples obtained from bronchoscopes and rinse-water samples obtained from the washer-disinfector were found to be positive for B. cepacia complex. The cause of this pseudo-outbreak was that the washer-disinfector was installed without the required antibacterial filter.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	769-771
Number of pages	3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	31
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/653611
State	Published - Jul 2010

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