Seven-Year Experience With a Surveillance Program to Reduce Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- 1 May 2009
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 123 (5) , e790-e796
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2008-1526
Abstract
OBJECTIVES. The objectives of this study were to determine the incidence rates of neonatal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection after the implementation of a NICU methicillin-resistant S aureus surveillance and isolation program and to describe the characteristics of infants with methicillin-resistant S aureus colonization and invasive disease.Keywords
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