Outbreak of a South West Pacific clone Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a UK neonatal intensive care unit

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 293-298

  Ali, H ^a   Nash, J Q ^a   Kearns, A M ^b   Pichon, B ^b   Vasu, V ^a   Nixon, Z ^a   Burgess, A ^a   Weston, D ^a   Sedgwick, J ^b   Ashford, G ^b   Muhlschlegel F A ^a,c  

^a WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Neonatal infection; Outbreak; Panton Valentine leucocidin; South West Pacific clone

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; CLINDAMYCIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; QUINOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; PHILIPPINES; RELAPSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CARRIER STATE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EXOTOXINS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHILIPPINES; QUINOLONES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84858264372     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2011.12.019     Document Type: Article

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