Outbreak of Tsukamurella spp. Bloodstream Infections among Patients of an Oncology Clinic—West Virginia, 2011–2012

Isaac See,Duc B. Nguyen,Somu Chatterjee,Thein Shwe,Melissa Scott,Sherif Ibrahim,Heather Moulton-Meissner,Steven McNulty,Judith Noble-Wang,Cindy Price,Kim Schramm,Danae Bixler,Alice Guh

Outbreak of Tsukamurella spp. Bloodstream Infections among Patients of an Oncology Clinic—West Virginia, 2011–2012

2014

Isaac See
Duc B. Nguyen
Somu Chatterjee
Thein Shwe
Melissa Scott
Sherif Ibrahim
Heather Moulton-Meissner
Steven McNulty
Judith Noble-Wang
Cindy Price
Kim Schramm
Danae Bixler
Alice Guh

Objective To determine the source and identify control measures of an outbreak of Tsukamurella species bloodstream infections at an outpatient oncology facility.

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Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Medicine
Actinomycetales Infection
Tsukamurella
Oncology clinic
Outbreak
Tsukamurella species
Bacteremia
Tsukamurella pulmonis
Case-control study
Catheter
Malignancy
Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens
Infection control

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