A case of meningitis due to extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa imported through medical evacuation: genomic and environmental investigation

Hiroaki Baba; Hajime Kanamori; Makoto Katsumi; Takami Sato; Takae Chida; Shinobu Ikeda; Yuki Suzuki; Hisakazu Yano; Koichi Tokuda

doi:10.1093/jtm/taab047

A case of meningitis due to extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa imported through medical evacuation: genomic and environmental investigation

J Travel Med. 2021 Aug 27;28(6):taab047. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taab047.

Authors

Hiroaki Baba^{1

2}, Hajime Kanamori^{1

2

3}, Makoto Katsumi⁴, Takami Sato^{3

4}, Takae Chida³, Shinobu Ikeda³, Yuki Suzuki⁵, Hisakazu Yano⁵, Koichi Tokuda^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan.
² Department of Intelligent Network for Infection Control, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan.
³ Division of Infection Control, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Apba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-Cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8521, Japan.

PMID: 33763694
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taab047

No abstract available

Keywords: Extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa; antimicrobial resistance; medical evacuation; medical tourism; meningitis; ultraviolet-C decontamination; whole-genome sequencing.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Genomics
Humans
Meningitis*
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Pharmaceutical Preparations*
Pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Pharmaceutical Preparations

Grants and funding

JP18K16169/JSPS KAKENHI