Record number:
1031
Adverse Occurrence type:
MPHO Type:
Time to detection:
20 hours
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:
Postoperatively, surveillance blood cultures from the liver recipient were positive for MSSA (methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus) after 20 - 21 h of incubation.
Demonstration of imputability or root cause:
The isolate from the recipient was confirmed to be indistinguishable from the donor isolate by PFGE. No evidence of postoperative infection in the other recipients from the same donor.
Imputability grade:
3 Definite/Certain/Proven
Keywords:
Suggest references:
Doucette, K.E., Al-Saif, M., Kneteman, N., Chui, L., Tyrell, G.J., Kumar, D. and Humar, A. (2013). Donor-derived bacteremia in liver transplant recipients despite antibiotic prophylaxis Amer J Transplant 13(4): 1080-3.