Hospital-acquired listeriosis linked to a persistently contaminated milkshake machine.
Epidemiol Infect
; 145(5): 857-863, 2017 04.
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ABSTRACT
One case of hospital-acquired listeriosis was linked to milkshakes produced in a commercial-grade shake freezer machine. This machine was found to be contaminated with a strain of Listeria monocytogenes epidemiologically and molecularly linked to a contaminated pasteurized, dairy-based ice cream product at the same hospital a year earlier, despite repeated cleaning and sanitizing. Healthcare facilities should be aware of the potential for prolonged Listeria contamination of food service equipment. In addition, healthcare providers should consider counselling persons who have an increased risk for Listeria infections regarding foods that have caused Listeria infections. The prevalence of persistent Listeria contamination of commercial-grade milkshake machines in healthcare facilities and the risk associated with serving dairy-based ice cream products to hospitalized patients at increased risk for invasive L. monocytogenes infections should be further evaluated.
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01-internacional
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3_ND
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecção Hospitalar
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Microbiologia Ambiental
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Manipulação de Alimentos
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Doenças Transmitidas por Alimentos
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Listeriose
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Listeria monocytogenes
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Epidemiol Infect
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article