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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2002, p. 3032-3034, Vol. 40, No. 8
0095-1137/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.3032-3034.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cross-Infection Due to Imipenem-Resistant Bacteroides fragilis Associated with a Totally Implantable Venous Port

Corinne Arpin,1 Véronique Dubois,1 Anne-Marie Rogues,2 Fanny Menard,3 Anne-Marie Gavinet,3 Jean-Pierre Maire,4 Jean-Pierre Gachie,2 Marie-Christine Bezian,3 and Claudine Quentin1*

Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Faculté de Pharmacie,1 Service d'Hygiène Hospitalière, Université de Bordeaux 2,2 Laboratoire de Bactériologie,3 Service d'Oncologie, Hôpital Saint-André, Bordeaux, France4

Received 12 October 2001/ Returned for modification 25 February 2002/ Accepted 26 April 2002

Four patients in an oncology ward developed Bacteroides fragilis bacteremia over a 12-day period. Cross-infection between two of them, due to an imipenem-resistant strain, was demonstrated by epidemiological investigation and genotypic typing methods (arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprinting and nucleotide sequencing of the cfiA genes and upstream IS1186/IS1168 elements).

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France. Phone: (33) 5 57 57 10 75. Fax: (33) 5 56 90 90 72. E-mail: claudine.quentin{at}bacterio.u-bordeaux2.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2002, p. 3032-3034, Vol. 40, No. 8
0095-1137/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.3032-3034.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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