Environmental contamination of postmortem blood cultures detected by whole-genome sequencing surveillance

Alexander J Sundermann; Marissa Griffith; Vatsala Rangachar Srinivasa; Deena Ereifej; Kady Waggle; Daria Van Tyne; Graham M Snyder; A William Pasculle; Tanner Bartholow; Lora Pless; Lee H Harrison

doi:10.1017/ice.2023.192

Environmental contamination of postmortem blood cultures detected by whole-genome sequencing surveillance

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Dec;44(12):2103-2105. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.192. Epub 2023 Aug 24.

Authors

Alexander J Sundermann^{1

2}, Marissa Griffith^{1

2}, Vatsala Rangachar Srinivasa^{1

2

3}, Deena Ereifej^{1

2

3}, Kady Waggle^{1

2

3}, Daria Van Tyne², Graham M Snyder^{2

4}, A William Pasculle^{5

6}, Tanner Bartholow⁵, Lora Pless^{1

2}, Lee H Harrison^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Microbial Genomic Epidemiology Laboratory, Center for Genomic Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Department of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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MeSH terms

Blood Culture*
Genome, Bacterial*
Humans