Nosocomial Group A Streptococcal Infections Associated With Asymptomatic Health-Care Workers--Maryland and California, 1997

Article Abstract:

Two outbreaks of group A Streptococcus (GAS) illustrate the risk of healthcare workers transmitting this infection to patients. GAS is a common cause of throat infections and mild skin and soft tissue infections, but can also cause serious invasive infections and death.Nine patients in Maryland and three in California were infected with GAS after surgery or childbirth. In the Maryland outbreak, three healthcare workers were found to be carriers and in California, an orderly was identified as a carrier. Carriers can shed the organism even if they have no symptoms and take proper infection control precautions.

Health aspects, Streptococcal infections, Medical personnel

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Transmission of nosocomial Legionnaires disease

Article Abstract:

Reports of Legionnaire's disease (LD) from two hospitals indicate that a hospital's water supply can become contaminated and remain so for long periods of time. Eight cases of LD in an Arizona hospital led investigators to search the hospital's records, identifying a total of 25 cases of definite or probable LD between 1987 and 1996. A similar occurrence in an Ohio hospital resulted in the identification of 38 definite or probable cases between 1989 and 1996. In both states, analysis of water samples from the hospital's water distribution system revealed the presence of the bacterium that causes LD.

Water, Contamination, Legionnaires' disease

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