An epidemic of resistant Salmonella in a nursery. Animal-to-human spread.

JAMA ·Vol. 243 ·No. 6 ·1980-02-08 ·Pages 546-7

Lyons RW, Samples CL, DeSilva HN, Ross KA, Julian EM, Checko PJ

Abstract

A Salmonella heidelberg epidemic in a hospital nursery was traced to infected calves on a dairy farm where the mother of the index patient lived. The Salmonella isolates from all cases were resistant to chloramphenicol, sulfamethoxazole, and tetracycline. Verification of the spread of infection from the farm animals to a hospital population is unusual and raises questions about the hazards of antibiotic animal-feed preparations that may induce infection with resistant organisms in humans.

MeSH Terms

Animals Cattle Cattle Diseases/microbiology Chloramphenicol/pharmacology Connecticut Cross Infection/epidemiology Disease Outbreaks/epidemiology Drug Resistance, Microbial Female Humans Infant, Newborn Infant, Newborn, Diseases/transmission Male Nurseries, Hospital Pregnancy Salmonella/drug effects Salmonella Infections/epidemiology,transmission Salmonella Infections, Animal/transmission Sulfamethoxazole/pharmacology Tetracycline/pharmacology Zoonoses

Chemicals

Chloramphenicol Tetracycline Sulfamethoxazole

Authors & Affiliations

6 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Lyons R W

Samples C L

DeSilva H N

Ross K A

Julian E M

Checko P J

Article Info

Journal

JAMA

Abbr.

JAMA

ISSN

0098-7484

Published

1980-02-08

Pages

546-7

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7501160

Subset

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