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Moisturizing body milk as a reservoir of Burkholderia cepacia: outbreak of nosocomial infection in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit

Francisco Álvarez-Lerma1*, Elena Maull1, Roser Terradas1, Concepción Segura2, Irene Planells3, Pere Coll4, Hernando Knobel1 and Antonia Vázquez1

Author Affiliations

1 Services of Intensive Care Medicine, Evaluation and Clinical Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Passeig Marítim 25-29, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain

2 Service of Infectious Pathology, Laboratori de Referència de Catalunya, C/Selva 10, edifice INBLAU A, Parc de Negocis Mas Blau, E-08820 El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

3 Service of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Passeig Vall d'Hebron 119-129, E-08035 Barcelona, Spain

4 Service of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, C/Sant Antoni Maria Claret 167, E-08025 Barcelona, Spain

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Critical Care 2008, 12:R10 doi:10.1186/cc6778


See related commentary by Irwin and Price, http://ccforum.com/content/12/1/115

Published: 31 January 2008

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