Burkholderia Cepacia Outbreaks
Contaminated disinfectant cause of B. cepacia pseudooutbreak in blood bank
Published in Blood Weekly, September 1st, 2005
According to a recent report from Germany, "We report on a pseudooutbreak of Burkholderia cepacia because of the use of a contaminated disinfectant during quality controls in a university blood bank. No septic reactions associated with transfusions had been reported in patients over the last 6 months."
"Analysis of the individual quality control procedures showed that a disinfectant based on a quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) had been used in order to disinfect the rubber stopper of the blood culture bottle.
"B....
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Source: Blood Weekly (2005-09-01)
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