Importance of the environment and the faecal flora of infants, nursing staff and parents as sources of gram-negative bacteria colonizing newborns in three neonatal wards.

Abstract excerpt

Gram-negative bacteria are an important cause of invasive infection among neonates. In this study a novel fingerprinting method was used for the first time to assess the importance of various potential reservoirs of the major gram-negative enterobacteria that colonized 46 consecutive infants in three neonatal special care units during a three to four week period. Such bacteria were isolated from the oropharynx,...

Topics

• Age Factors
• Colony Count, Microbial
• Cross Infection
• DNA Fingerprinting
• Delivery, Obstetric
• Disease Reservoirs
• Enterobacteriaceae
• Enterobacteriaceae Infections
• Environmental Microbiology
• Feces