Mechanism of cross-contamination of blood culture bottles in a pseudoepidemic of Enterobacter cloacae bacteremia

Clin Infect Dis. 1998 Nov;27(5):1335. doi: 10.1093/clinids/27.5.1335.

Authors

R Finkelstein¹, E Kassis, A Lapidot-Farkash, I Oren, I Avivi, N Hashman, G Rabino, E Ben-Porat

Affiliation

¹ Infectious Diseases Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

PMID: 9827303
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/27.5.1335

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Bacteremia / epidemiology*
Blood / microbiology*
Culture Media
Disease Outbreaks*
Enterobacter cloacae / growth & development
Enterobacter cloacae / isolation & purification*
Enterobacteriaceae Infections / epidemiology*
Equipment Contamination*
False Positive Reactions
Humans

Substances

Culture Media