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Neonatal Outbreak of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone Geraldine: A Bundle of Measures to Halt Transmission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2017

Elodie Couvé-Deacon ,
Fabienne Mons ,
Fabien Garnier ,
Pierre Leduc ,
Laure Ponthier ,
Marie Domelier ,
Anne Tristan ,
Marie-Cécile Ploy  and
Nathalie Pestourie
Elodie Couvé-Deacon*
Affiliation:
Université Limoges, INSERM, CHU Limoges, UMR 1092, Limoges, France
Fabienne Mons
Affiliation:
Department of Neonatal Pediatrics, Mère-Enfant Hospital, Limoges, France
Fabien Garnier
Affiliation:
Université Limoges, INSERM, CHU Limoges, UMR 1092, Limoges, France
Pierre Leduc
Affiliation:
Université Limoges, INSERM, CHU Limoges, UMR 1092, Limoges, France
Laure Ponthier
Affiliation:
Department of Neonatal Pediatrics, Mère-Enfant Hospital, Limoges, France
Marie Domelier
Affiliation:
Department of Neonatal Pediatrics, Mère-Enfant Hospital, Limoges, France
Anne Tristan
Affiliation:
National Reference Center for Staphylococci, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Marie-Cécile Ploy
Affiliation:
Université Limoges, INSERM, CHU Limoges, UMR 1092, Limoges, France
Nathalie Pestourie
Affiliation:
Université Limoges, INSERM, CHU Limoges, UMR 1092, Limoges, France
*
Address correspondence to Elodie Couvé-Deacon, CHU Limoges, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, 2 avenue Martin Luther King, 87042 Limoges cedex, France (e.couve@gmail.com).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , June 2017 , pp. 749 - 751
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: A preliminary abstract was presented in a French national congress, “26ème Congrès de la SF2H,” in Tours, France, on June 3–5, 2015.

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