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ReviewRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2024

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak in a university hospital: epidemiological investigation and literature review of an emerging healthcare-associated infection.

Mehmet Erinmez, Feyza Nur Aşkın, Yasemin Zer

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Review in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Distribution and Antibiotic Resistance ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  3. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  5. The Other Face ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025
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  8. Multicenter epidemiology ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mehmet ErinmezGaziantep University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Gaziantep, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3570-3510
Feyza Nur AşkınGaziantep University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Gaziantep, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8881-1913
Yasemin ZerGaziantep University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Gaziantep, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9078-9900

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia was considered to be a low-virulence organism. But it has emerged as a prominent opportunistic pathogen in patients with certain risk factors. This study aimed to describe an outbreak experienced in our hospital with all dynamics while evaluating previous S. maltophilia outbreak reports. S. maltophilia isolates were obtained from a university hospital in Türkiye in a seven-months period. Antimicrobial resistance, type of infections, predisposing factors of infected patients, antibiotic therapy, outcome of infections, and outbreak source were investigated. Also, S. maltophilia outbreaks in the literature were reviewed. In the 12 months prior to the outbreak, prevalence rate of clinical samples including S. maltophilia was 7/1,000 patient per day, opposed to 113/1,000 patient per day during the outbreak. Although a large number of cases were observed in a short seven-month period, a source of contamination could not be detected. Stable mortality rates (or remaining close to the average) during outbreaks can be attributed to the careful attention paid by laboratory and clinic physicians during procedures. S. maltophilia has potential to spread outbreaks and infect patients in operating rooms and intensive care units during invasive procedures.

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Cross InfectionDisease OutbreaksGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsHospitals, UniversityStenotrophomonas maltophiliaAnti-Bacterial AgentsFemaleHumansMaleRisk FactorsTurkeyAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID39082485
PMCPMC11295291

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