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A Nursery Outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus Pyoderma Originating From a Nurse With Paronychia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Wen-Tsung Lo ,
Chih-Chien Wang  and
Mongling Chu
Wen-Tsung Lo
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Chih-Chien Wang*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Mongling Chu
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
*
Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, No. 325, Cheng-Kung Rd., Sec. 2, Neihu 114, Taipei, Taiwan
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Abstract

An outbreak of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus pyoderma occurred in the nursery of a tertiary-care referral center. All strains retrieved from the outbreak, including one from a nurse's infected finger, were typed by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction and automated ribotyping. The results indicated that the spread of the outbreak was probably facilitated by contamination of the nurse with paronychia.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , March 2002 , pp. 153 - 155
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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