Literature DB >> 7015827

A nursery outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection. Evidence of a single source of contamination.

D Anagnostakis, J Fitsialos, C Koutsia, J Messaritakis, N Matsaniotis.   

Abstract

An outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection occurred in a special neonatal unit. The epidemic involved seven newborns, one of whom died. Contaminated hand-washing brushes were implicated in the epidemic; their removal resulted in a dramatic elimination of the infection.

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Year:  1981        PMID： 7015827     DOI： 10.1001/archpedi.1981.02130290011005

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Am J Dis Child        ISSN： 0002-922X


  9 in total

1.  Use of molecular typing to study the epidemiology of Serratia marcescens.

Authors:  A McGeer; D E Low; J Penner; J Ng; C Goldman; A E Simor
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1990-01       Impact factor: 5.948

2.  Outbreak of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal unit.

Authors:  J Royle; S Halasz; G Eagles; G Gilbert; D Dalton; P Jelfs; D Isaacs
Journal:  Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed       Date:  1999-01       Impact factor: 5.747

Review 3.  Serratia infections: from military experiments to current practice.

Authors:  Steven D Mahlen
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2011-10       Impact factor: 26.132

Review 4.  Epidemiologic background of hand hygiene and evaluation of the most important agents for scrubs and rubs.

Authors:  Günter Kampf; Axel Kramer
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2004-10       Impact factor: 26.132

5.  Epidemiological and bacteriological investigation of Serratia marcescens epidemic in a nursery and in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Authors:  D Montanaro; G M Grasso; I Annino; N De Ruggiero; A Scarcella; F Schioppa
Journal:  J Hyg (Lond)       Date:  1984-08

6.  Ribotyping provides efficient differentiation of nosocomial Serratia marcescens isolates in a pediatric hospital.

Authors:  E H Bingen; P Mariani-Kurkdjian; N Y Lambert-Zechovsky; P Desjardins; E Denamur; Y Aujard; E Vilmer; J Elion
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1992-08       Impact factor: 5.948

7.  Epidemic outbreak of Serratia marcescens infection in a cardiac surgery unit.

Authors:  I Wilhelmi; J C Bernaldo de Quirós; J Romero-Vivas; J Duarte; E Rojo; E Bouza
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1987-07       Impact factor: 5.948

8.  Use of PCR to study epidemiology of Serratia marcescens isolates in nosocomial infection.

Authors:  P Y Liu; Y J Lau; B S Hu; J M Shir; M H Cheung; Z Y Shi; W S Tsai
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1994-08       Impact factor: 5.948

9.  Management and investigation of a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal unit in Switzerland - the role of hand hygiene and whole genome sequencing.

Authors:  Walter Zingg; Isabelle Soulake; Damien Baud; Benedikt Huttner; Riccardo Pfister; Gesuele Renzi; Didier Pittet; Jacques Schrenzel; Patrice Francois
Journal:  Antimicrob Resist Infect Control       Date:  2017-12-11       Impact factor: 4.887
  9 in total

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