An outbreak of Salmonella urbana infection in neonatal nurseries.
An outbreak of neonatal infection with Salmonella urbana in three neonatal wards of a teaching hospital in Bangkok, Thailand is described. The outbreak lasted for 5 days. Fifty-seven neonates had gastrointestinal infection, 37 had diarrhoea, and three had bacteraemia. The attack rates were 43% for infection, 29% for diarrhoea, and 2.3% for bacteraemia. Epidemiological evaluation suggested that a contaminated wash basin in the labour nursery was the source of infection. Delay in controlling this outbreak occurred because the staff assumed that person-to-person transmission was the mode of spread, thus ignoring epidemiological data that would have led to the identification of the source of infection.
Sirinavin
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Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Hotrakitya
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Suprasongsin
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C
Wannaying
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B
Pakeecheep
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S
Vorachit
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M
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012498:Sanitary Engineering / Q000592:standards; D018805:Sepsis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology