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Nosocomial Pertussis Outbreak Among Adult Patients and Healthcare Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Laurence Bassinet ,
Mireille Matrat ,
Elisabeth Njamkepo ,
Said Aberrane ,
Bruno Housset  and
Nicole Guiso
Laurence Bassinet
Affiliation:
Service de Pneumotogie et de Pathologic Professionnelle, Centre Hospitaller Intercommunal de Créteil, Créteil, France Institut Pasteur, Unité Prévention et Thérapie Moléculaires des Maladies Humaines, Centre National de Référence de la Coqueluche et Autres Bordetelloses, Paris, France
Mireille Matrat
Affiliation:
Service de Pneumotogie et de Pathologic Professionnelle, Centre Hospitaller Intercommunal de Créteil, Créteil, France
Elisabeth Njamkepo
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur, Unité Prévention et Thérapie Moléculaires des Maladies Humaines, Centre National de Référence de la Coqueluche et Autres Bordetelloses, Paris, France
Said Aberrane
Affiliation:
Service de Bactériologie, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Cretéil, Cretéil, France
Bruno Housset
Affiliation:
Service de Pneumotogie et de Pathologic Professionnelle, Centre Hospitaller Intercommunal de Créteil, Créteil, France
Nicole Guiso*
Affiliation:
Institut Pasteur, Unité Prévention et Thérapie Moléculaires des Maladies Humaines, Centre National de Référence de la Coqueluche et Autres Bordetelloses, Paris, France
*
Institut Pasteur, Unité Prévention et Thérapie Moléculaires des Maladies Humaines, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
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Abstract

We describe a pertussis outbreak among adult patients in a French general hospital following transmission from a healthcare worker. This index case transmitted pertussis to other healthcare workers, who, in turn, contaminated other staff and two immuno-suppressed patients. This raises questions about infection control.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 11 , November 2004 , pp. 995 - 997
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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