ArticleBone marrow transplantation2000
An outbreak of multiply resistant Serratia marcescens: the importance of persistent carriage.
Article in Bone marrow transplantation, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Risk factors for healthcare-associated infection and colonization of Serratia marcescens in neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Pooled it
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- Sepsis and a painful shoulder in a haemodialysis patient.NDT plus · 2011Article
- Serratia infections: from military experiments to current practice.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2011Review
- RssAB-FlhDC-ShlBA as a major pathogenesis pathway in Serratia marcescens.Infection and immunity · 2010Article
- Molecular epidemiology of Serratia marcescens in two hospitals in Gdańsk, Poland, over a 5-year period.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2004Article
- Outbreaks of infectious diseases in stem cell transplant units: a silent cause of death for patients and transplant programmes.Bone marrow transplantation · 2004Article
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Abstract
An outbreak of multi-resistant Serratia marcescens involving 24 patients occurred in a bone marrow transplant and oncology unit, from September 1998 to June 1999, of whom 14 developed serious infection. This is the first such outbreak described in a BMT unit. All isolates demonstrated the same antimicrobial susceptibility pattern and were the same unusual serotype O21:K14. The antimicrobial susceptibility profile showed reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin, gentamicin and piperacillin-tazobactam. As the latter two antimicrobials are part of our empiric therapy for febrile neutropenia, they were substituted with meropenem and amikacin during the outbreak. Investigation revealed breaches in infection control practices. Subsequently, the outbreak was contained following implementation of strict infection control measures. A prominent feature of the outbreak was prolonged carriage in some patients. These patients may have acted as reservoirs for cross-infection. This report also indicates that patients who become colonised with Serratia marcescens may subsequently develop invasive infection during neutropenic periods.
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