A pseudo-outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
Five VRE isolates were reported from sterile samples. No infections were diagnosed among the patients, who were on different wards. PFGE showed that all five isolates were clonal. All samples were manipulated by the same worker, but the source could not be found. Contamination was probably related to manipulation of a source specimen in the laboratory.
Grinbaum
Renato Satovschi
RS
Hospital Infection Program, Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Guimarães
Thaís
T
Kusano
Elisa
E
Hosino
Nair
N
Sader
Helio
H
Cereda
Rosangela Ferraz
RF
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016984:Enterococcus faecium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D020713:Vancomycin Resistance