Unrelated strain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization of health care workers in a neonatal intensive care unit: Findings of an outbreak investigation
| Autor: | Joseph J. Abularrage, Mahmoud Hassanein, Sorana Segal-Maurer, Carl Urban, Mimi Lim, Pinchi Srinivasan, Janice Burns, Ed Mangini, Noriel Mariano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Parents Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Neonatal intensive care unit Genotype Epidemiology Health Personnel medicine.disease_cause Disease Outbreaks Intensive Care Units Neonatal Health care Humans Medicine Colonization Mass screening Molecular Epidemiology business.industry Health Policy Strain (biology) Infant Newborn Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Outbreak Staphylococcal Infections biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Electrophoresis Gel Pulsed-Field Molecular Typing Infectious Diseases Staphylococcus aureus Carrier State business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Infection Control. 41:1102-1104 |
| ISSN: | 0196-6553 |
| Popis: | Three neonates and 5 health care workers were identified as colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) out of 222 individuals screened during an outbreak investigation in an 18-bed neonatal intensive care unit. Two of 3 MRSA neonatal isolates demonstrated identical pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clonal patterns but no clonal association was found among isolates from the 5 employees or between employees and neonates. Increased MRSA-unrelated strain colonization among health care workers supports increased MRSA community prevalence and probable decreased utility of mass screening. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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