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An outbreak of group A streptococcal bacteremia in an intensive care unit.
- Source :
-
Infection control : IC [Infect Control] 1986 Mar; Vol. 7 (3), pp. 177-80. - Publication Year :
- 1986
-
Abstract
- Admission of a patient with group A streptococcal cellulitis and bacteremia to the intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital was followed by two subsequent cases of group A streptococcal bacteremia with pneumonia in the unit. All streptococcal isolates were the same M- and T-type. Endotracheal intubation with respiratory ventilation was a risk factor for disease acquisition. The characteristics of onset of the two nosocomially acquired cases suggested that a staff member may have been, at least transiently, a streptococcal carrier, but no such carrier was identified. No further cases occurred subsequent to a period when all patients in the unit received antibiotics effective for group A streptococcal therapy.
- Subjects :
- Aged
Clindamycin therapeutic use
Cross Infection prevention & control
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Penicillins therapeutic use
Sepsis microbiology
Sepsis prevention & control
Streptococcal Infections drug therapy
Streptococcal Infections microbiology
Streptococcal Infections prevention & control
Streptococcus pyogenes isolation & purification
Tobramycin therapeutic use
United States
Cross Infection epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks prevention & control
Intensive Care Units
Sepsis epidemiology
Streptococcal Infections epidemiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0195-9417
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Infection control : IC
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 3514507
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0195941700064031