TY - JOUR TI - Nosocomial Infections and Cases of Sphingomonas Paucimobilis AB - Sphingomonas paucimobilis (S. paucimobilis), especially in patients withimmune suppressive and very rare in healthy people, attracted attention recently,causing nosocomial infections, is a gram-negative, aerobic bacillus. This bacterialnosocomial infection in our hospital as a first six-month period, six times wasisolated from five patients. These five patients were acute peritonitis, vaginalcuff, surgical field, soft tissue and bloodstream infection. The identification ofmicrobiological methods known to S. paucimobilis was examined by the antibioticsensitivity disk diffusion test. Antibiotic sensitivity of the isolated bacteria werethe same. From the environment and environment cultures S. paucimobilis wasisolated once from the use water as a hospital infection effect. It was realized thatthe chlorination of hospital waters was inadequate during that period. Our hospitalwas thought to have a small epidemic. In conclusion, S. paucimobilis has recentlybeen investigated in the context of literature with the belief that a new nosocomialinfection will be affected. AU - KARABAY, OĞUZ AU - SIRMATEL, FATMA AU - BEHZADİ, Elham AU - ÖZENSOY, Aynur DO - 10.4274/meandros.galenos.2016.2341 PY - 2019 JO - Meandros Medical And Dental Journal VL - 20 IS - 2 SN - 2149-9063 SP - 164 EP - 170 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/363309 ER -