Infant Colonization With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus or Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Preceding Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Rates of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and/or vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were determined for 1320 infants within 7 days of neonatal intensive care unit discharge. Overall, 4% and 1% of the infants were colonized with MRSA or VRE, respectively. Predictors identified in fixed-effects models were surgery during hospitalization (for MRSA colonization) and prolonged antimicrobial treatment (for VRE colonization).

publication date

  • September 1, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Staphylococcal Infections
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5907882

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85031801753

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1093/jpids/pix003

PubMed ID

  • 28339914

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 6

issue

  • 3