Ochrobactrum anthropi Meningitis in Pediatric Pericardial Allograft Transplant Recipients

J Chang, H; C. Christenson, John; T. Pavia, Andrew; Bobrin, Bradford; A Bland, L; A. Carson, Loretta; J. Arduino, Matthew; Verma, Punam; M Aguero, S; B Carroll, K; Jenkins, Emma; A. Daly, Judy; L. Woods, Marion; R. Jarvis, William

doi:10.1093/infdis/173.3.656

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Ochrobactrum anthropi Meningitis in Pediatric Pericardial Allograft Transplant Recipients

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases • Mar 1, 1996

Authors:

H J Chang

John C. Christenson

Andrew T. Pavia

Abstract

An epidemiologic investigation was done after 3 patients contracted Ochrobactrum anthropi meningitis at one hospital in October 1994. Neurosurgical patients with pericardial tissue implants were at greater risk of infection than other neurosurgical patients (3/14 vs. 0/566; P<.001). Cultures of impl...

Subject

Meningitis

Medicine

Microbiology

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