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Outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia in the Adult Intensive Care Unit Traced to Contaminated Indigo-Carmine Dye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Denise Gravel ,
Mary Lu Sample ,
Karam Ramotar ,
Baldwin Toye ,
Cathy Oxley  and
Gary Garber
Denise Gravel
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control Program, Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mary Lu Sample*
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control Program, Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Karam Ramotar
Affiliation:
Division of Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Baldwin Toye
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cathy Oxley
Affiliation:
Infection Prevention and Control Program, Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Gary Garber
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*
Infection Prevention and Control Program, The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6, Canada
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Abstract

We report an unusual cluster of Burkholderia cepacia in patients. Environmental cultures identified indigo-carmine dye used in enteral feeding as the reservoir. Compared with the controls, the cases were significantly more likely to have received tube feedings tinted with this dye. This outbreak was terminated with the removal of the dye from hospital inventory.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , February 2002 , pp. 103 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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