Article
Residual risk of Pseudomonas aeruginosa waterborne contamination in an intensive care unit despite the presence of filters at all water points-of-use.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Jul 2024
Royer G, Virieux-Petit M, Aujoulat F, Hersent C, Baranovsky S, Hammer-Dedet F, Masnou A, Marchandin H, Corne P, Jumas-Bilak E, Romano-Bertrand S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess the residual risk of waterborne contamination by Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a water network colonized by a single genotype [sequence type (ST) 299] despite the presence of antimicrobial filters in a medical intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS: During the first 19-month period since the ICU opened, contamination of the water network was assessed monthly by collecting water upstream of the...
Topics
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Humans
- Intensive Care Units
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genotype
- Pseudomonas Infections
- Water Microbiology
- Filtration
- Whole Genome Sequencing
- Molecular Typing