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An Unexpected Hospital Infection Hazard

Godela Reisig, MD; William Schaffner, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1972;104(3):349-350.

Abstract
Salmonella typhi was cultured from the operative wound drainage of a patient who had had acute typhoid fever 58 years previously and from the gallbladder of a patient with cholecystitis. Neither patient was a known typhoid carrier. According to the literature, such unexpected recovery of S typhi seems to be unusual but not rare. These patients are a hospital infection hazard that can be discovered by culturing postoperative infections and gallbladders and gallstones removed at operation.

Author Affiliations
Nashville, Tenn

From the Department of Medicine, George Hunter Laboratory, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (Drs. Reisig and Schaffner) and the Veterans Administration Hospital (Dr. Reisig), Nashville, Tenn.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 8, 1971.

Reprint requests to Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn 37232 (Dr. Schaffner).

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