Serratia marcescens sepsis outbreak caused by contaminated propofol
Articles > Article · 2018
Authors: Fatma Feriha ÇİLLİ, Arzu Nazli-Zeka, Bilgin ARDA, Oğuz Reşat SİPAHİ, Sukran Aksit-Barik, Nurhayat KEPELİ, Mehmet Ali ÖZİNEL, Zeynep Gulay, Sercan ULUSOY
American Journal of Infection Control, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2018, vol 47, pp 582-584
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2018.10.014
Summary
We presented a sepsis outbreak caused by Serratia marcescens from contaminated propofol to raise awareness. Three patients had sepsis syndrome after chest surgery. Isolation of S marcescens from patients' respiratory and blood samples alerted us to a possible outbreak. Four syringes filled with propofol and 1 saline solution yielded S marcescens. Nine of 10 isolates from samples of patients and environment genotyped by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis were the same. Disobeying aseptic injection rules of propofol is still causing outbreaks. (C) 2018 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.