Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to preterm infants through breast milk

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 778-780

  Behari, Priya ^a   Englund, Janet ^b   Alcasid, Grace ^c   Garcia Houchins, Sylvia ^c   Weber, Stephen G ^a,c  

^a Section of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Sect of Pediat Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST MILK; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EPIDEMIC; FOOD ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MASTITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NOSE; PREMATURITY; THROAT CULTURE; UMBILICUS;

CHICAGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MILK, HUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRIPLETS;

EID: 4744356133     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502476     Document Type: Article

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