Incubator-borne Pseudomonas pyocyanea infection in a newborn nursery.

Pyocine-typing of Hospital Strains of Pseudomonas Pyocyanea.

A method of typing Pseudomonas pyocyanea is described which makes use of the property of bacteriocine production. The method was applied in an epidemiological study of Ps. pyocyanea infection in a general hospital. It was found that the majority of strains believed on epidemiological grounds to be of common origin were allotted to the same pyocine type. In the course of this study, Ps. pyocyane...

Hospital Infection with Pseudomonas Pyocyanea: an Investigation by a Combined Pyocine and Serological Typing Method.

Contamination of cetrimide and other fluids with Pseudomonas pyocyanea.

cream applied locally or used for holding sterile instruments might be conveying the infective agent. Soap solution, cetrimide, " dettol" and calamine lotion are commonly dispensed in large corked or stoppered bottles which are sometimes not replaced for many days, and during that time they are frequently opened. Contamination of such bottles is likely, and the survival or multiplication of som...

A Bacteriophage for Pseudomonas pyocyanea (Pseudomonas aeruginosa).

Flavobacterium meningosepticum infection: an epidemiological study in a newborn nursery.

After an outbreak of flavobacterium meningitis in the newborn nursery of the University Hospital, an investigation was carried out to determine the possible sources of this organisms in the nursery. Various serotypes of the organism were recovered from a variety of sources such as wash basins, sinks, suction apparatus, and disinfectants in the nursery as well as the neighbouring wards. Colonisa...