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Volume 28, Number 1—January 2022
Synopsis

Extensively Drug-Resistant Carbapenemase-Producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Medical Tourism from the United States to Mexico, 2018–2019

Ian Kracalik1Comments to Author , D. Cal Ham1, Gillian McAllister, Amanda R. Smith, Maureen Vowles, Kelly Kauber, Melba Zambrano, Gretchen Rodriguez, Kelley Garner, Kaitlyn Chorbi, P. Maureen Cassidy, Shannon McBee, Rhett J. Stoney, Kathleen Moser, Margarita E. Villarino, Oscar E. Zazueta, Amelia Bhatnagar, Erisa Sula, Richard A. Stanton, Allison C. Brown, Alison L. Halpin, Lauren Epstein, Maroya Spalding Walters, and for the Verona Integron-Encoded Metallo-β-Lactamase–Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Medical Tourism Investigation Team2
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (I. Kracalik, D. Cal Ham, G. McAllister, R.J. Stoney, K. Moser, M.E. Villarino, A. Bhatnagar, E. Sula, R.A. Stanton, A.C. Brown, A.L. Halpin, L. Epstein, M. Spalding Walters); Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (A.R. Smith, M. Vowles); Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, Washington, USA (K. Kauber); Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, USA (M. Zambrano, G. Rodriguez); Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (K. Garner); Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (K. Chorbi); Oregon Health Authority, Portland, Oregon, USA (P.M. Cassidy); West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Charleston, West Virginia, USA (S. McBee); Secretaría de Salud de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico (O.E. Zazueta)

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Figure 1

Confirmed and probable cases of infection with Verona integron‒encoded, metallo-β-lactamase‒producing, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, by state in which bacterium was identified, among US medical tourists undergoing elective invasive procedures in Tijuana, Mexico, January 2018–December 2019. Six suspected cases, from Arizona (n = 1), Georgia (n = 3), Michigan (n = 1), and Washington (n = 1) are not shown.

Figure 1. Confirmed and probable cases of infection with Verona integron‒encoded, metallo-β-lactamase‒producing, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, by state in which bacterium was identified, among US medical tourists undergoing elective invasive procedures in Tijuana, Mexico, January 2018–December 2019. Six suspected cases, from Arizona (n = 1), Georgia (n = 3), Michigan (n = 1), and Washington (n = 1) are not shown.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Members of this team are listed at the end of this article.

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