RESUMO
We report an outbreak of conjunctivitis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa involving seven infants admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Uberlândial Federal University Hospital between March and September 2001. Three infants developed systemic complications (01 sepsis and 02 pneumonias). Ten isolates were obtained from conjunctival cultures and all were resistant to ceftazidime and aminoglycosides. Fast identification of the organism and treatment with imipenem were important in containing the outbreak of P. aeruginosa.
Assuntos
Conjuntivite/epidemiologia , Infecção Hospitalar/epidemiologia , Surtos de Doenças , Infecções por Pseudomonas/epidemiologia , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Brasil/epidemiologia , Ciprofloxacina/uso terapêutico , Conjuntivite/tratamento farmacológico , Conjuntivite/microbiologia , Infecção Hospitalar/microbiologia , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana Múltipla , Humanos , Imipenem/uso terapêutico , Recém-Nascido , Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal , Infecções por Pseudomonas/tratamento farmacológico , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/efeitos dos fármacos , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/isolamento & purificaçãoRESUMO
We report an outbreak of conjunctivitis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa involving seven infants admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Uberlândial Federal University Hospital between March and September 2001. Three infants developed systemic complications (01 sepsis and 02 pneumonias). Ten isolates were obtained from conjunctival cultures and all were resistant to ceftazidime and aminoglycosides. Fast identification of the organism and treatment with imipenem were important in containing the outbreak of P. aeruginosa
