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Roy F Chemaly1, Dhanesh B Rathod, Monica K Sikka, Mary K Hayden, Mark Hutchins, Tracy Horn, Jeffery Tarrand, Javier Adachi, Kim Nguyen, Gorden Trenholme, Issam Raad.
Abstract
A national outbreak of Serratia marcescens bacteremia because of contaminated prefilled heparin and saline syringes led to their recall. We evaluated the clinical impact of this outbreak in 57 patients at 3 centers. All patients were symptomatic and were treated with intravenous antibiotics with a fatal outcome in 1 patient.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21492963 DOI： 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.08.020
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Infect Control ISSN： 0196-6553 Impact factor: 2.918