Publications by authors named "Luiz Affonso Mascarenhas"
Background: Listeriosis occurs mainly in persons at extremes of age and with immunocompromising conditions. It is believed that most cases of listeriosis are acquired in the community. A cluster of listeriosis in hospitalized patients prompted the present investigation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase-crossover study of Burkholderia cepacia complex bloodstream infection associated with contaminated intravenous bromopride.
Ianick Souto Martins Flávia Lúcia Piffano Costa Pellegrino Andrea d'Avila Freitas Marisa da Silva Santos Giovanna Ianini d'Alemeida Ferraiuoli Luiz Affonso Mascarenhas
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
May 2010
Objective: To investigate an outbreak of healthcare-associated Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) primary bloodstream infections (BCC-BSI).
Design And Setting: Case-crossover study in a public hospital, a university hospital and a private hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from March 2006 to May 2006.
Patients: Twenty-five patients with BCC-BSI.