Pseudo-Outbreak of Cupriavidus pauculus Infection at an Outpatient Clinic Related to Rinsing Culturette Swabs in Tap Water-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Pseudo-Outbreak of Cupriavidus pauculus Infection at an Outpatient Clinic Related to Rinsing Culturette Swabs in Tap Water

Published:2010-07 Issue:7 Volume:48 Page:2645-2647
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Balada-Llasat Joan-Miquel¹,Elkins Camille¹,Swyers Lettie¹,Bannerman Tammy¹²,Pancholi Preeti¹

Affiliation:

1. Clinical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

2. Ohio Department of Health Laboratory, Reynoldsburg, Ohio

Abstract

ABSTRACT Cupriavidus pauculus is a water microorganism rarely isolated from clinical specimens. We describe a pseudo-outbreak in which multiple strains that were associated with moistening of culturette swabs with tap water were isolated from a single clinic before collecting the patient specimen.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.01874-09

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