| investigation of an outbreak of ralstonia pickettii in a paediatric hospital by rapd. | in 1995, over a 5-day period, ralstonia pickettii was isolated from six separate blood cultures from six paediatric patients in four different units of the bordeaux paediatric hospital. the patients did not present fever or any other symptom of septicaemia. epidemiological investigation cast suspicion on distilled water and 0.05% aqueous solutions of chlorhexidine used for topical disinfection as the source of r. pickettii. the organism was isolated from three of the seven distilled water specim ... | 2000 | 10772834 |