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Serratia marcescens Infections from Inhalation Therapy Medications: Nosocomial Outbreak
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An outbreak of nosocomial infections caused by non-pigmentedSerratia marcescensis described, which resulted in 655 bacterial isolates from 374 patients during a 10-month period.Abstract:
An outbreak of nosocomial infections caused by non-pigmentedSerratia marcescensis described. There were 655 bacterial isolates from 374 patients during a 10-month period; 50.4% of isolates...read more
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Guidelines for Preventing Health-Care-- Associated Pneumonia, 2003 Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
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Health and Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance
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Changing pharyngeal bacterial flora of hospitalized patients. Emergence of Gram-negative bacilli.
TL;DR: The prevalence of gram-negative bacilli among the oropharyngeal bacterial flora was low in physiologically normal subjects despite hospital exposure but rose markedly in patients with illnesses of varying severity, suggesting that pharyngeAL clearance mechanisms are impaired in these patients.
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The Potential Role of Inhalation Therapy Equipment in Nosocomial Pulmonary Infection
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Long-term evaluation of decontamination of inhalation-therapy equipment and the occurrence of necrotizing pneumonia.
TL;DR: Daily decontamination of reservoir nebulizer equipment with 0.25 per cent acetic acid is effective and practical in routine hospital use, and the prevalence of necrotizing pneumonia due to gram-negative bacilli at autopsy during the "preacetic acid era" is similar to that found before the use of reservoirs nebulizers.
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A Hospital Outbreak of Serratia marcescens Associated with Ultrasonic Nebulizers
Robert E. Ringrose,Beverly A. McKown,Frances G. Felton,Billy O. Barclay,Harold G. Muchmore,Everett R. Rhoades +5 more
TL;DR: A sevenfold increase in the frequency of isolation of Serratia marcescens was noted during a 2-month period, and the majority of these patients acquired the virus during this period.
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Serratia marcescens Septicemia
TL;DR: These data confirm that in certain clinical situations the organism can become resistant to antibiotics, and it is recommended that until specific antibiotic sensitivities can be obtained, patients with Serratia septicemia should be treated with kanamycin in combination with chloramphenicol or ampicillin.