1. An Outbreak of Bacillus Species in a Cancer Hospital
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de Faria Lm, de Souza Martins Ca, da Fonseca Np, Eduardo Velasco, Dias Lm, Luiz Claudio Santos Thuler, and Gonçalves Vm
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Adult ,Male ,Microbiology (medical) ,Catheterization, Central Venous ,Adolescent ,Epidemiology ,Matched-Pair Analysis ,Bacillus ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Bacillaceae Infections ,Cancer Care Facilities ,Calcium ,Vial ,Disease Outbreaks ,Microbiology ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Odds Ratio ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Aged ,Cross Infection ,biology ,business.industry ,Infant ,Outbreak ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Calcium Gluconate ,Bacillales ,Solutions ,Infectious Diseases ,chemistry ,Case-Control Studies ,Child, Preschool ,Bacteremia ,Immunology ,Gluconic acid ,Female ,Drug Contamination ,business ,Brazil - Abstract
Bacillus species were recovered from the blood cultures of 39 oncology patients over 14 weeks. A matched case-control study showed a strong association of Bacillus species bacteremia with use of calcium gluconate solution (odds ratio=25.0) and of central venous lines (odds ratio=8.8). Stopping use of the implicated calcium gluconate vials controlled the outbreak.
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- 1998
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