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Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Synopsis

Multistate US Outbreak of Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infections Associated with Medical Tourism to the Dominican Republic, 2013–20141

David SchnabelComments to Author , Douglas H. Esposito, Joanna Gaines, Alison Ridpath, M. Anita Barry, Katherine A. Feldman, Jocelyn Mullins, Rachel Burns, Nina Ahmad, Edith N. Nyangoma, Duc T. Nguyen, Joseph F. Perz, Heather Moulton-Meissner, Bette J. Jensen, Ying Lin, Leah Posivak-Khouly, Nisha Jani, Oliver Morgan, Gary W. Brunette, P. Scott Pritchard, Adena H. Greenbaum, Susan M. Rhee, David Blythe, Mark Sotir, and the RGM Outbreak Investigation Team
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D. Schnabel, D.H. Esposito, J. Gaines, A. Ridpath, J. Mullins, N. Ahmad, E.N. Nyangoma, D.B. Nguyen, J.F. Perz, H.A. Moulton-Meissner, B.J. Jensen, O.W. Morgan, G.W. Brunette, M. Sotir); Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (D. Schnabel, K.A. Feldman, D. Blythe); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA (A. Ridpath, Y. Lin); Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (M.A. Barry); Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (J. Mullins); Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston (R. Burns); New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York (N. Ahmad); Montgomery County Health Department, Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA (L. Posivak-Khouly); Newark Department of Child and Family Well-Being, Newark, New Jersey, USA (N. Jani); Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (P.S. Pritchard); Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (A.H. Greenbaum); Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore (S.M. Rhee)

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Table 2

Clinical course and therapeutic interventions for patients in multistate US outbreak of RGM infections acquired by medical tourists who underwent procedures in clinic A in the Dominican Republic, 2013–2014*

Changed antibacterial drugs
Yes 7 (78)
No 2 (22)

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. PICC, peripheral inserted central catheters; RGM, rapidly growing mycobacteria.
†10 of 13 (77%) with available data.
‡6 of 13 (46%) with available data.
§5 of 13 (38%) with available data.
¶Signs and symptoms reported at a frequency <19% include skin stretching, fluctuance, bleeding from breast (site of surgical procedure), ulcerations, back pain, itching, body aches, and blisters and painful and red nodules that gradually enlarged and dehisced.
#Medical charts assessed for only 9 of 13 clinic A patients.
**>1 answer possible per patient.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 2014 Council and State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference; June 22–26, 2014; Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

2Members of the RGM Outbreak Investigation Team are listed at the end of this article.

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