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Peripartum maternal transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase organism to newborn infants.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Feb 2017
Peretz Avi, Skuratovsky Alina, Khabra Efrat, Adler Amos, Pastukh Nina, Barak Shay, Perlitz Yuri, Ben-Ami Moshe, Kushnir Amir
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to determine whether the route of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) transmission to hospitalized newborns was from their mothers during delivery. Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalized newborns were sampled for ESBL presence by stool cultures on the first and fourth days of life. Mothers of ESBL-positive newborns were sampled for possible correlation detection. Bacteria...
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