title: Ten-year surveillance of fungal contamination of food within a protected haematological unit.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, BP 217, 38-043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. mpbrenier-pinchart@chu-grenoble.fr
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Brenier-Pinchart
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Faure
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Garban
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fricker-Hidalgo
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Mallaret
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trens
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lebeau
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pelloux
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grillot
mesh_terms: 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