Ochrobactrum Anthropi Meningitis
"Ochrobactrum anthropi Meningitis in Pediatric Pericardial Allograft Transplant Recipients."
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 8th, 1996
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Infectious Diseases, "An epidemiologic investigation was done after 3 patients contracted Ochrobactrum anthropi meningitis at one hospital in October 1994. Neurosurgical patients with pericardial tissue implants were at greater risk of infection than other neurosurgical patients (3/14 vs. 0/566; p<.001). Cultures of implants removed from 2 case-patients, an implant at implantation, a nonimplanted pericardial tissue, and an unwrapped but unopened bottle of Hanks' balanced salt solution (HBSS) grew O. anthropi. Patient and tissue isolates had identical genotypes; the isolate from the HBSS...
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