A Cluster of Rhodococcus (Gordona) Bronchialis Sternal-Wound Infections after Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery
| العنوان: | A Cluster of Rhodococcus (Gordona) Bronchialis Sternal-Wound Infections after Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery |
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| المؤلفون: | William R. Jarvis, Philip C. Craven, Candice D. Cox, June M. Brown, Brent A. Lasker, Hervé Richet, Ofelia C. Tablan, Michael M. McNeil, Alan D. Tice |
| المصدر: | New England Journal of Medicine. 324:104-109 |
| بيانات النشر: | Massachusetts Medical Society, 1991. |
| سنة النشر: | 1991 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Sternum, medicine.medical_specialty, Operating Room Nursing, Disease cluster, Disease Outbreaks, Microbiology, Coronary artery bypass surgery, Risk Factors, medicine, Humans, Rhodococcus, Surgical Wound Infection, Coronary Artery Bypass, Feces, Aged, Cross Infection, biology, business.industry, Outbreak, General Medicine, Middle Aged, biology.organism_classification, Surgery, Gordonia bronchialis, Case-Control Studies, Carrier State, Sputum, Female, medicine.symptom, Complication, business, Actinomycetales Infections |
| الوصف: | RHODOCOCCUS species are gram-positive bacillary aerobic actinomycetes found in soil, sewage, fresh water, and feces of horses, sheep, and cattle.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Only one report of Rhodococcus (Gordona) bronchialis infection in humans has been published; the organism was isolated from the sputum of patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis or bronchiectasis.24 We describe a hospital outbreak of surgical-wound infections caused by a single genetically distinct strain of R. bronchialis that was traced to an operating-room nurse. Methods Definition and Ascertainment of Cases A case was defined as a sternal-wound infection that was culture-positive for R. bronchialis in a patient who had undergone open-heart . . . |
| تدمد: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm199101103240206 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::669a24f8f39ad2b685878ca5a4a22361 https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199101103240206 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....669a24f8f39ad2b685878ca5a4a22361 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15334406 00284793 |
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| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm199101103240206 |