Ten-year surveillance of fungal contamination of food within a protected haematological unit.
Since 1992, we have established a protocol of food management (restrictive diet, food distribution protocol and fungal surveillance) for allogeneic stem-cell transplant (SCT) recipients hospitalised in protected ward. This study analyses the results of 10-year surveillance of fungal contamination of this diet. Among the 456 types of foods tested filamentous fungi were isolated in 37 of them (8.1%). Aspergillus fumigatus was isolated in one type of food only, while the majority of the food was contaminated to a lower extent.
Brenier-Pinchart
M P
MP
Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, BP 217, 38-043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. mpbrenier-pinchart@chu-grenoble.fr
Faure
O
O
Garban
F
F
Fricker-Hidalgo
H
H
Mallaret
M R
MR
Trens
A
A
Lebeau
B
B
Pelloux
H
H
Grillot
R
R
D001230:Aspergillus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005521:Food Service, Hospital; D005858:Germany; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D009181:Mycoses / Q000517:prevention & control; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012189:Retrospective Studies