New bacteria infects cancer patients in Arkansas

Patients who had ports accessed at ACI between March 22 and September 11 of this year are considered at risk


A newly discovered bacteria has infected dozens of cancer patients who received treatments at the Arkansas Cancer Institute (ACI), according to an article on the KARK website.

The epidemiologist at the State Health Department (ADH) said that the bacteria is so new that doctors don't know exactly what it does.

Patients who had ports accessed at ACI between March 22 and September 11 of this year are considered at risk.

"We know that things have gone wrong in the development of their flushes. They have created their own flushes which were supposed to be sterile and they were not sterile," according to an ADH official.   

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November 12, 2018


Topic Area: Infection Control


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