Burkholderia lata Infections from Intrinsically Contaminated Chlorhexidine Mouthwash, Australia, 2016
- Lex E.X. Leong
- Diana Lagana
- Glen P. Carter
- Qinning Wang
- Kija Smith
- Tim P. Stinear
- David Shaw
- Vitali Sintchenko
- Steven L. Wesselingh
- Ivan Bastian
- Geraint B. Rogers
Publication date
November 2018
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ISSN
1080-6040 Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Burkholderia lata was isolated from 8 intensive care patients at 2 tertiary hospitals in Australia. Whole-genome sequencing demonstrated that clinical and environmental isolates originated from a batch of contaminated commercial chlorhexidine mouthwash. Genomic analysis identified efflux pump–encoding genes as potential facilitators of bacterial persistence within this biocide
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