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Colonization With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Evacuees After Hurricane Katrina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ulrich Seybold ,
Nancy White ,
Yun F. Wang ,
J. Sue Halvosa  and
Henry M. Blumberg
Ulrich Seybold*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia Medical Policlinic, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Nancy White
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, and the Epidemiology Department, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
Yun F. Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
J. Sue Halvosa
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, and the Epidemiology Department, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
Henry M. Blumberg*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia Emory University School of Medicine, and the Epidemiology Department, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 49 Jesse Hill Jr. Dr., Atlanta, GA 30303 (useybol@emory.edu)
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 49 Jesse Hill Jr. Dr., Atlanta, GA 30303 (henry.m.blumberg@emory.edu)
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Abstract

After Hurricane Katrina, 50 patients were evacuated to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, with limited medical records. The infection control department ordered contact precautions for 16 Patients. Surveillance cultures performed on admission identified colonization with multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in 9 patients (18%). Presence of a wound was the strongest predictor for MDR colonization. More data are needed to reliably predict MDR bacterial colonization.

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , June 2007 , pp. 726 - 729
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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