title: Microbial contamination of a disinfectant-soaked unwoven cleaning cloth.
abstract: In December 2009, a 76-year-old male patient developed pneumonia due to Burkholderia cepacia whilst in an intensive care unit at a Japanese university hospital. During the subsequent environmental investigation to find the source, B. cepacia with an identical DNA type was found in his denture storage solution. Open packets of unwoven rayon cloths soaked in 0.2% alkyldiaminoethylglycine hydrochloride, used for environmental cleaning, were shown to be contaminated with B. cepacia, Alcaligenes xylosoxidans, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. B. cepacia of a different DNA type was found in five of 42 samples from sealed packets of cloths.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy, Yamaguchi University Hospital, Ube 755-8505, Japan. oie-ygc@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oie
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arakawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Furukawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wakamatsu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000421:Alcaligenes; D019121:Burkholderia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D016956:Burkholderia cepacia / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D004202:Disinfectants; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005838:Genotype; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D058889:Molecular Typing; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D011549:Pseudomonas
chemical_list: D004202:Disinfectants