RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cerebral ventriculitis associated with Achromobacter xylosoxidans.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 156
OP 161
DO 10.1136/jcp.31.2.156
VO 31
IS 2
A1 S Shigeta
A1 Y Yasunaga
A1 K Honzumi
A1 H Okamura
A1 R Kumata
A1 S Endo
YR 1978
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/31/2/156.abstract
AB Six patients in the neurosurgical ward of Fukushima Medical College Hospital suffering from ventriculitis due to Achromobacter xylosoxidans infection had undergone craniotomy or cranial trepanation before the infection. The strains of A. xylosoxidans isolated from the patients were resistant to streptomycin, ampicillin, cephaloridine, gentamicin, and colistin. They were also resistant to chlorhexidine digluconate (Hibitane) in a concentration of 2%. When a study of the chlorhexidine used in the hospital was carried out four strains of A. xylosoxidans were isolated from 20 containers of chlorhexidine solution in the surgical ward but not from those in the operating theatre.