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  • Title: Staphylococcus aureus: a continuously evolving and formidable pathogen in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Author: Carey AJ, Long SS.
    Journal: Clin Perinatol; 2010 Sep; 37(3):535-46. PubMed ID: 20813269.
    Abstract:
    Staphylococcus aureus is a continuously evolving and formidable pathogen that has been a problem for both healthy and sick neonates for decades. Much focus over the past 20 years has been on hospital-associated methicillin-resistant S aureus (HA-MRSA); however, a global epidemic because of virulent community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) that has no "fitness cost" for carrying antibiotic-resistance genes has moved into neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Recently, methicillin-susceptible S aureus has adopted some of the virulence factors of CA-MRSA and is an increasingly common cause of hospital-acquired infections in NICUs. This article reviews the changing epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of S aureus in neonates.
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