Journal
JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION
Volume 111, Issue -, Pages 184-188Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.025
Keywords
Surgical site infections; Serratia marcescens; Whole-genome sequencing
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Early postoperative infections caused by Serratia marcescens have been reported in our teaching hospital, leading to an investigation into a outbreak linked to a contaminated intraoperative probe. This investigation involved clinical, epidemiological, environmental, and genomic factors to determine the source of infection.
Early postoperative infections due to Serratia marcescens have been reported by both clinicians and microbiologists in our teaching hospital. Here, we present an interlinked clinical, epidemiological, environmental and genomic investigation of this outbreak due to a T-shaped intraoperative probe contaminated by S. marcescens used during peroperative ultrasonography in laparoscopic liver resection. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society.
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