Septicemia Due toKlebsiella pneumoniaeOriginating from a Hand-Cream Dispenser
- 31 August 1967
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 277 (9) , 472-473
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196708312770906
Abstract
SECONDARY infection is a major hazard to the hospitalized patient.1 , 2 Numerous institutionacquired infections, attributed to a wide variety of sources and micro-organisms, have been described. The purpose of this report is to identify a unique source recognized during an outbreak of septicemia involving 6 of 13 patients in a medical intensive-care unit. The origin was traced to a dispensing bottle of contaminated lanolin hand cream.Epidemiolocic BackgroundWithin a seventy-two-hour period (February 15 to 17, 1967) 6 patients in the medical intensive care unit had fever, shaking chills, mental confusion or transient hypotension (Table 1). Blood cultures from 5 yielded . . .Keywords
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