Nosocomial outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa associated with a drinking water fountain.
Over a four-month period, ten patients were suspected of having acquired nosocomial infection to P. aeruginosa in the ear, nose, and throat department. Environmental and clinical isolates were compared. Only water from a drinking water fountain was contaminated by P. aeruginosa. This isolate and those of three patients had indistinguishable random amplified polymorphic DNA profiles. These patients had serious oncology diseases. The drinking water fountain was used for their alimentation by percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and was the origin of the outbreak. Another type of drinking fountain with a terminal ultraviolet treatment was installed, following which no new infections linked to drinking water were identified.
Université de Poitiers, Laboratoire Ecologie Biologie des Interactions (EBI), UMR CNRS 7267, équipe Microbiologie de l'Eau, France; CHU de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, France. Electronic address: damien.costa@univ-poitiers.fr.
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CHU de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, France.
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Bousseau
CHU de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, France.
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Thevenot
CHU de Poitiers, Service d'Oto-rhino-laryngologie, France.
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Dufour
CHU de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, France.
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Laland
CHU de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, France.
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Burucoa
CHU de Poitiers, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, France.
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D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D060766:Drinking Water / Q000382:microbiology*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D058889:Molecular Typing; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
D060766:Drinking Water
Drinking water fountain; Nosocomial; Outbreak; Pseudomonas aeruginosa