Brote de infección hospitalaria, producido por miembros de la tribu Klebsielleae, en una unidad de cuidados intensivos para lactantes / [Outbreak of hospital infection, due to members of the Klebsielleae tribe, in an intensive care unit for infants]
Rev. argent. microbiol
; Rev. argent. microbiol;12(2): 39-43, 1980 May-Aug.
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ABSTRACT
At the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Provincial Regional Hospital, in Río Cuarto, Argentina, nearly all hospitalized infants showed clinical symptoms of septicaemia and gastroenteritis. Neither Salmonella nor Shigella were found in the stool cultures, but Klebsiella pneumoniae was isolated as predominant flora. Three haemocultures displayed K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae; the other three developed only E. cloacae. Since the infants came from different places and it was possible to isolate members of the Klebsielleae tribe from all of them, a hospital infection was suspected. Searching for the infectious source, K. pneumoniae was detected in the water bath used to keep the feeding-bottles at 37 degrees C. To clarify the existence of any relationship between the strains isolated from patients and from the water bath, several characteristics were compared biotypes, haemolityc activity, antibiotic sensibility patterns, and pathogenicity, assessed as lethal dose 50
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Rev. argent. microbiol
Ano de publicação:
1980
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Argentina