A Cluster of Bloodstream Infections and Pyrogenic Reactions among Hemodialysis Patients Traced to Dialysis Machine Waste-Handling Option Units

Elise M. Jochimsen,Charles Frenette,Monique Delorme,Matthew J. Arduino,Sonia M. Aguero,Loretta A. Carson,Johanne Ismaïl,Stephen Lapierre,Elizabeth Czyziw,Jerome I. Tokars,William R. Jarvis

A Cluster of Bloodstream Infections and Pyrogenic Reactions among Hemodialysis Patients Traced to Dialysis Machine Waste-Handling Option Units

1998

Elise M. Jochimsen
Charles Frenette
Monique Delorme
Matthew J. Arduino
Sonia M. Aguero
Loretta A. Carson
Johanne Ismaïl
Stephen Lapierre
Elizabeth Czyziw
Jerome I. Tokars
William R. Jarvis

From June 17 through November 15, 1995, ten episodes of Enterobacter cloacae bloodstream infection and three pyrogenic reactions occurred in patients at a hospital-based hemodialysi

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Dialysis
Emergency medicine
Enterobacter cloacae
Kidney disease
Intensive care medicine
Endocrinology
Hemodialysis
Bacteremia
Internal medicine
Medicine
bloodstream infection
in patient

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