Hospital-Related Infection — United States
Toilets in UPMC [University of Pittsburgh Medical Center] Presbyterian’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit have emerged as a potential source of fungal infections that may have contributed to the deaths of 2 patients and sickened a 3rd.
2 heart-transplant patients contracted mold infections and subsequently died over the past year in the now-shuttered 20-bed unit, UPMC’s Chief Quality Officer Tami Minnier said Thu [17 Sep 2015]. A 3rd patient, who had a lung transplant, remains
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