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Stem Cell Transplantation
Bordetella bronchiseptica nosocomial infection occurred after stem cell transplantation
September 19th, 2006
Nosocomial infection with Bordetella bronchiseptica occurred following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. "Two patients who had undergone nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation 53 and 112 days earlier and were being monitored at the same transplant center developed severe Bordetella bronchiseptica infections within 3 days of each other," scientists in the United States report. According to E.S. Huebner and colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, "Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis indicated that the isolates from the two cases were identical. Neither patient had had direct contact with animals since...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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