Large hospital-wide outbreak of Paenibacillus spp pseudobacteremia associated with contaminated nonsterile gloves.
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DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.46
Abstract: We report a large, hospital-wide outbreak of pseudobacteremia by Paenibacillus spp. In total, 139 patients presented at least 1 positive blood culture during a 13-month period. Microbiological experiments indicated that contaminated nonsterile gloves were associated… read more here.
Keywords: pseudobacteremia; hospital wide; contaminated nonsterile; wide outbreak ... See more keywords