“…Early isolates were recovered from various locations, including well and river water, raw milk, frozen fish, raw sewage, rabbit and human feces, contaminated tissue culture, and various human body fluids (20). More recently, the organism has been identified as a cause of bloodstream infections (11,24,33,41), endocarditis (5, 9, 40), infections of traumatic and postoperative wounds (6,13,14,28), urinary tract infections (13,14), pneumonia (7,12,31), meningitis (4,27), epididymitis (34), eye infections (2,4,34), and mastoiditis (16). This report describes the spectrum of clinical disease in 99 patients from whom nosocomial P. maltophilia was isolated between 1981 and 1984 at the University of Virginia Hospital.…”