| ralstonia pickettii bloodstream infections at a brazilian cancer institution. | we describe a series of ralstonia pickettii bloodstream infections (bsi) that occurred in 19 oncohematologic patients admitted to a hospital for patients with cancer, in the city of rio de janeiro, from july 1999 to february 2006. fifty-four r. pickettii isolates were recovered from blood and catheter-tip specimens (1-5 isolates per patient). two patients eventually died of causes unrelated to r. pickettii bsi. eight pulsed-field gel electrophoresis genotypes were resolved (a-h), with two detect ... | 2008 | 17994262 |