An outbreak of nosocomial cholera in a rural Bangladesh hospital
| Autor: | A.S.M.Mizanur Rahman, B.S. Houda, A.R.M.A. Alim, M.D. Yunis, R.W. Ryder |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Adult Diarrhea Male Risk Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty medicine.drug_class Hospitals Rural Antibiotics medicine.disease_cause Disease Outbreaks Cholera medicine Humans Risk factor Child Bangladesh Cross Infection Transmission (medicine) Intravenous solutions business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Outbreak General Medicine medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Vibrio cholerae Hospital admission Female business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of hospital infection. 8(3) |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| Popis: | At a time of year when Vibrio cholerae infection accounted for over 50% of admissions to a rural Bangladeshi diarrhoea treatment centre, 29% of 48 patients hospitalized with non-cholera diarrhoea developed nosocomial V. cholerae infection. During an investigation of the 8-week outbreak, only the severity of the non-cholera diarrhoea which prompted hospital admission emerged as an important risk factor for nosocomial infection; food, intravenous solutions, oral rehydration fluid, patient attendants and hospital personnel could not be implicated as transmission sources. Patients receiving antibiotics while hospitalized did not develop nosocomial infection. Antecedent non-cholera diarrhoea may represent an important risk factor in some cases of V. cholerae infection occurring in persons who reside in cholera-endemic areas where rates of non-cholera diarrhoea are also high. |
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