First case of E anophelis outbreak in an intensive-care unit

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 382; no. 9895; pp. 855 - 856
• Main Authors: Teo, Jeanette, Tan, Sean Yang-Yi, Tay, Martin, Ding, Yichen, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Givskov, Michael, Lin, Raymond TP, Yang, Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 07.09.2013; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Antibiotics; Cross Infection - drug therapy; Cross Infection - microbiology; Cross Infection - transmission; Disease Outbreaks; Drug Therapy, Combination; Flavobacteriaceae - classification; Flavobacteriaceae - drug effects; Flavobacteriaceae - genetics; Flavobacteriaceae - isolation & purification; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - drug therapy; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - microbiology; Flavobacteriaceae Infections - transmission; Genomes; Genotype; Humans; Intensive Care Units; Internal Medicine; Mass spectrometry; Opportunistic Infections - drug therapy; Opportunistic Infections - microbiology; Opportunistic Infections - transmission; Ostomy; Singapore; Thoracic surgery; Singapore
• ISSN: 0140-6736; 1474-547X
• DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61858-9

The hospital infection-control team at the National University Hospital of Singapore identified three patients in the cardiothoracic intensive-care unit (ICU) and two patients from the surgical ICU that were colonised with Elizabethkingia during a 3 week period in 2012.1 The Elizabethkingia strains were identified as Elizabethkingia meningoseptica on the basis of matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis.