| point-of-use water filtration reduces healthcare-associated infections in bone marrow transplant recipients. | outbreaks of infection with gram-negative bacteria (gnb) have been linked to hospital water. we sought to determine whether point-of-use (pou) water filtration might result in decreased risk of infection in hospitalized bone marrow transplant (bmt) recipients in the absence of any recognized outbreak. unfiltered water was sampled from taps in the bmt unit of a major us teaching hospital, and cultured at a reference laboratory. pou bacterial-retentive filters (0.2 mum) were installed throughout t ... | 2010 | 19781018 |