With several patients in local hospitals struggling to recover, public health officials are warning San Diego doctors to be on the lookout for signs of a deadly infection linked to weight-loss surgeries performed in Tijuana.
This CDC illustration shows the structure of antibiotic-resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.
In January, CDC officials said that the subspecies detected among Tijuana weight-loss patients is particularly nasty because of its ability to destroy carbapenems, one of the most effective and broadly acting classes of antibiotics available to modern medicine. In San Diego, Dr. Eric McDonald, medical director of the county public health department’s epidemiology and immunization services branch, said that his office became aware of two local cases, one in October and one in January, after his office issued a preliminary notice to doctors on Jan. 16. Neither of those cases, he said, is a San Diego County resident, with one residing elsewhere in California and another living out of state.
He said that having four cases pop up in San Diego hospitals made it important for his office to let all local doctors know that they need to be proactive, asking about surgery in Mexico and responding with extra precaution, including patient isolation, where appropriate.
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