These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Genomic typing techniques in a case of skin infection epidemic by Staphylococcus aureus in a newborn unit].
    Author: Torre I, Sferratore FP, Crispino M.
    Journal: Ann Ig; 2003; 15(6):895-901. PubMed ID: 15049547.
    Abstract:
    In the present study it has been attempted to characterize the source, the reservoir and the modality of transmission of a skin infection epidemic by Staphylococcus aureus in a Newborn Unit. Every S. aureus isolate from clinician and environmental samples has been submitted to phenotypic typing, by means of antibiotic resistance patterns. The genotype has been analyzed using genomic DNA profile of restriction with Sma I and Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE). In bacterial infections the epidemiologist nexus can think demonstrated when the stocks isolate from various cases belong to the same one clone. In the Newborn Unit the same one clone of S. aureus has been found on 2 health care workers, on 13 staff bearers characterized, and skin of 5 ill newborn infants. Therefore it has been able to go back to the probable source of infection and to take the right measures.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]