Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit
| العنوان: | Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit |
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| المؤلفون: | Maria Owais, Afia Zafar, Imran Ahmed, Farida Khurram Lalani, Nadia Mohammad, Seema Irfan, Naureen Anjum |
| المصدر: | Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 25:514-518 |
| بيانات النشر: | World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO/EMRO), 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Neonatal intensive care unit, business.industry, Transmission (medicine), health care facilities, manpower, and services, education, Outbreak, General Medicine, medicine.disease_cause, 01 natural sciences, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Epidemiology, Emergency medicine, medicine, Outpatient clinic, Infection control, Screening cultures, business, 010606 plant biology & botany |
| الوصف: | The global and national burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases continues to rise, thus making access to Healthcare workers (HCWs) colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may pose transmission risk to vulnerable patients including neonates. This study reports an MRSA outbreak in a level-II neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a secondary care hospital in Pakistan. Once identified, an infection control team from the parent hospital visited the facility, risk factors were listed and infection control measures taken to control the outbreak. Screening cultures of NICU staff and environmental cultures from NICU were obtained for the presence of MRSA. Five neonates were positive for MRSA; one HCW was found to be colonized with MRSA, the antibiogram pattern of which matched with that of the outbreak strain. Decolonization of colonized HCWs and re-deployment from NICU to outpatient department were taken and the outbreak was declared over once no further MRSA cases were identified. Identification of an outbreak situation is the cornerstone for its control and multiple measures taken simultaneously help in curbing the outbreak. Although an epidemiological link was established with the HCW, a molecular link could not be proven. |
| تدمد: | 1687-1634 1020-3397 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::f28c4658f4680bbff5232a64e3cd739fTest https://doi.org/10.26719/emhj.18.058Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........f28c4658f4680bbff5232a64e3cd739f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 16871634 10203397 |
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