Paper: Nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea commovens

2023-11-15

Our paper about a nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea spp. was recently published in Emerging Infections Diseases: Outbreak of Pandoraea commovens Infections among Non-Cystic Fibrosis Intensive Care Patients, Germany, 2019-2021

In total, 24 patients from 4 hospitals in Berlin were affected. Genomic analysis of the isolates revealed Pandoraea commovens as the genetically most similar species, which was only described in 2019 by Peeters et al.