Infections from Contaminated Elastoplast

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To the Editor: The report by Gartenberg et al. in the November 16, 1978, issue of the Journal emphasized the association between the use of Elastoplast and cutaneous rhizopus infections. We report here a possible association between Elastoplast use and bacterial infections. During June, 1978, routine surveillance by our nurse epidemiologist detected four patients with five episodes of bacteremia related to total-parenteral-nutrition lines. Criteria for infection were positive cultures from the blood and catheter tip for the same organism without another source for bacteremia. An additional 13 patients received hyperalimentation therapy without development of bacteremia, yielding an infection rate for . . .

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