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Case Reports
. 1983 Nov;7(3):256-63.
doi: 10.1016/s0163-4453(83)97196-7.

Nosocomial infections by chlorhexidine solution contaminated with Pseudomonas pickettii (Biovar VA-I)

A Kahan, A Philippon, G Paul, S Weber, C Richard, G Hazebroucq, M Degeorges
Case Reports

Nosocomial infections by chlorhexidine solution contaminated with Pseudomonas pickettii (Biovar VA-I)

A Kahan et al. J Infect. 1983 Nov.

Abstract

Over a period of 10 days, six patients in a cardiac intensive care unit developed Pseudomonas pickettii (biovar VA-I) septicaemia after installation of a venous catheter. The organism was also recovered from all the vials of the aqueous solution of 0.05 per cent chlorhexidine ('Hibitane') prepared with contaminated bidistilled water. There were no further cases of infection when the use of this water was prohibited.

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