1. Unrelated strain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization of health care workers in a neonatal intensive care unit: findings of an outbreak investigation.
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Mangini E, Srinivasan P, Burns J, Lim M, Mariano N, Hassanein M, Abularrage J, Urban C, and Segal-Maurer S
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- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field, Genotype, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolation & purification, Molecular Epidemiology, Molecular Typing, Parents, Carrier State epidemiology, Carrier State microbiology, Disease Outbreaks, Health Personnel, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus classification, Staphylococcal Infections epidemiology, Staphylococcal Infections microbiology
- Abstract
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., (Copyright © 2013 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2013
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