Serratia marcescens bacteremia because of contaminated prefilled heparin and saline syringes: A multi-state report.
Am J Infect Control. 2011 Apr 12;
Authors: Chemaly RF, Rathod DB, Sikka MK, Hayden MK, Hutchins M, Horn T, Tarrand J, Adachi J, Nguyen K, Trenholme G, Raad I
A national outbreak of Serratia marcescens bacteremia because of contaminated prefilled heparin and saline syringes led to their recall. We evaluated the clinical impact of this outbreak in 57 patients at 3 centers. All patients were symptomatic and were treated with intravenous antibiotics with a fatal outcome in 1 patient.
PMID: 21492963 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]