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448063

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
An Asian patient with undiagnosed typhoid fever was admitted to a maternity hospital and delivered within 10 min. Salmonella typhi (phage type D5) was isolated from her blood and from the faeces of her baby. Another women in a different room of the labour suite at the same time acquired the same organism in her faeces; her brother was admitted to the Infectious Diseases Unit 5 weeks later with typhoid fever. Two babies, born over 60 h after the index case was delivered, became faecal excreters of the same strain and one of them also developed S. typhi osteitis of the hip. These two babies and their mothers were in the same ward as each other, but not that occupied by the infected mother and her baby. Nine other excreters in two of the families involved were identified. The index case and her baby were isolated immediately after delivery, and the relevant rooms in the labour suite were adequately disinfected. No evidence of undisinfected equipment used by the index case and the other infected patients was found, and no spread to staff was detected. The mode of spread remains unknown.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0022-1724
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
353-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
Spread of Salmonella typhi in a maternity hospital.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports