Article
Nosocomial outbreak of respiratory tract colonization with Mycobacterium fortuitum: demonstration of the usefulness of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in an epidemiologic investigation.
The American review of respiratory disease - 1 Nov 1991
Burns D N, Wallace R J, Schultz M E, Zhang Y S, Zubairi S Q, Pang Y J, Gibert C L, Brown B A, Noel E S, Gordin F M
Abstract excerpt
Between August 1989 and January 1990, 16 patients on an alcoholism rehabilitation ward (ARW) developed positive sputum cultures for Mycobacterium fortuitum. During a 2-wk surveillance period, six of 43 ARW patients but none of 20 staff members had positive sputum cultures. In addition, none of 54 patients and staff on an adjacent ward sharing the same ice machine and water supply had positive cultures, and none...
Topics
- Case-Control Studies
- Cross Infection
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- District of Columbia
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Genotype
- Hospitals, Veterans