AN OUTBREAK OF PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED RESPIRATORY-INFECTIONS DUE TO CONTAMINATED FOOD COLORING DYE - FURTHER EVIDENCEOF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GASTRIC COLONIZATION PRECEDING NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA

Authors
FILE TM TAN JS THOMSON RB STEPHENS C THOMPSON P
Citation
Tm. File et al., AN OUTBREAK OF PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED RESPIRATORY-INFECTIONS DUE TO CONTAMINATED FOOD COLORING DYE - FURTHER EVIDENCEOF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GASTRIC COLONIZATION PRECEDING NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA, Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 16(7), 1995, pp. 417-418
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Infection control and hospital epidemiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0899823X
Volume
16
Issue
7
Year of publication
1995
Pages
417 - 418
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-823X(1995)16:7<417:AOOPVR>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
An outbreak of ventilator-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa respirator y infections in an intensive care unit of a teaching hospital was foun d to be associated with contaminated food coloring dye. Serotyping and bacteriocin typing indicated that the same strain of Pseudomonas was isolated from the food dye and from the respiratory cultures of the ma jority of patients. This observation lends credence to the importance of gastric colonization preceding pneumonia in ventilated patients (In fect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1995;16:417-418).