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Infant Colonization With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus or Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Preceding Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge

Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Rates of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and/or vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were determined for 1320 infants within 7 days of neonatal intensive care unit discharge. Overall, 4% and 1% of the infants were colonized with MRSA or VRE, respectively. Predictors identified in fixed-effects models were surgery during hospitalization (for MRSA colonization) and prolonged antimicrobial treatment (for VRE colonization).
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/pix003
Authors: Sarah A Clock, Haomiao Jia, Sameer Patel, Yu-Hui Ferng, Luis Alba, Susan Whittier, Patricia DeLaMora, Setareh Tabibi, Jeffrey Perlman, David Paul, Theoklis Zaoutis, Elaine Larson, Lisa Saiman
Institutions: Columbia University, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Christiana Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2593709890
FWCI: 0.421
Cites: 32
Cited by: 6
Related to: 10