Transmission of ST8-USA300 Latin American Variant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Recurrent Skin and Soft- Tissue Infections as a Marker for Epidemic Community-Associated-MRSA Colonization

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Jul;38(7):883-885. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.88. Epub 2017 May 18.

Authors

Dennis Nurjadi¹, Sabrina Klein¹, Stefan Zimmermann¹, Klaus Heeg¹, Philipp Zanger¹

Affiliation

¹ 1Department of Infectious Diseases,Heidelberg University Hospital,Heidelberg,Germany.

PMID: 28514970
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.88

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Community-Acquired Infections / drug therapy
Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology
Community-Acquired Infections / transmission
Cross Infection / microbiology*
Cross Infection / transmission*
Female
Germany / epidemiology
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification
Nasal Mucosa / microbiology
Soft Tissue Infections / microbiology*
Soft Tissue Infections / transmission*
Staphylococcal Infections / transmission*