| indolent epidemic of pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia and pseudobacteremia in an intensive care unit traced to a contaminated blood gas analyzer. | an epidemic of pseudomonas cepacia bacteremia and pseudobacteremia occurred in the medical intensive care unit at the clinical center of the national institutes of health. sixteen patients in the intensive care unit became colonized or infected with this organism in a 21-month period; whereas p. cepacia had been isolated only 16 times in the preceding 90 months from the entire hospital. further analysis demonstrated a significant association of the epidemic cases with bloodstream isolation of th ... | 1988 | 3337133 |