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An Outbreak of Salmonella Serotype Saintpaul in a Children's Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Rena Bornemann ,
Danielle M. Zerr ,
Joan Heath ,
Jane Koehler ,
Marcus Grandjean ,
Ravi Pallipamu  and
Jeff Duchin
Rena Bornemann
Affiliation:
Children's Hospitaland Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Danielle M. Zerr
Affiliation:
Children's Hospitaland Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Joan Heath
Affiliation:
Children's Hospitaland Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Jane Koehler
Affiliation:
Public Health-Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington
Marcus Grandjean
Affiliation:
Public Health-Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington
Ravi Pallipamu
Affiliation:
Washington State Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories, Seattle, Washington
Jeff Duchin
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Public Health-Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington
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Abstract

Objectives:

To describe a nosocomial outbreak of Salmonella serotype Saintpaul gastroenteritis and to explore risk factors for infection.

Design:

Case-control study.

Setting:

A 208-bed, university-affiliated children's hospital.

Participants:

Patients hospitalized at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, during February 2001 who had stool specimens obtained for culture at least 24 hours after admission. Case-patients (n = 11) were patients with an indistinguishable strain of Salmonella Saintpaul cultured from their stool. Control-patients (n = 41) were patients hospitalized for problems other than gastroenteritis whose stool cultures were negative for Salmonella.

Methods:

Risk factors were evaluated using the chisquare test or Fisher's exact test. Continuous variables were compared using the Mann–Whitney U test. A multivariable analysis was performed using logistic regression. The predictor of interest was the receipt of enteral feeding formula mixed by the hospital.

Results:

Case-patients were more likely than control-patients to have received formula mixed by the hospital (OR, 4.2; 95% confidence interval, 1.04 to 17.16). Other variables evaluated were not significant predictors of Salmonella Saintpaul infection.

Conclusions:

Formula mixed by the hospital appears to have been the source of this Salmonella outbreak. Strict sanitation measures must be ensured in formula preparation and delivery, and bacterial pathogens should be included in the differential diagnosis for nosocomial gastroenteritis.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 11 , November 2002 , pp. 671 - 676
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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