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SUBMITTER: Becker SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6199865 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20181001 42
Three German patients developed nosocomial pneumonia after cardiac surgery and had <i>Burkholderia cepacia</i> complex detected in respiratory specimens. Two patients died of septic multi-organ failure. Whole-genome sequencing detected genetically identical <i>B. cepacia</i> complex strains in patient samples, from a batch of octenidine mouthwash solution, which had been used for nursing care, as well as in samples obtained from the manufacturer during production. Contamination of medical produc ...[more]