Neonatal nosocomial pneumococcal infections acquired by patient-to-patient transmission

Rimma Melamed; David Greenberg; Daniella Landau; Sofia Khvatskin; Eilon Shany; Ron Dagan

doi:10.1080/00365540110080241

Neonatal nosocomial pneumococcal infections acquired by patient-to-patient transmission

Scand J Infect Dis. 2002;34(5):385-6. doi: 10.1080/00365540110080241.

Authors

Rimma Melamed¹, David Greenberg, Daniella Landau, Sofia Khvatskin, Eilon Shany, Ron Dagan

Affiliation

¹ Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. rimmam@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

PMID: 12069026
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110080241

Abstract

A case of neonatal nosocomial pneumococcal sepsis acquired by patient-to-patient transmission and confirmed by phenotypic and genotypic typing is documented. To the best of our knowledge this is the first documented case of neonatal nosocomial person-to-person transmission.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cross Infection / microbiology
Cross Infection / transmission*
Disease Transmission, Infectious*
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal*
Male
Pneumococcal Infections / microbiology
Pneumococcal Infections / transmission*
Sepsis / microbiology
Sepsis / transmission
Streptococcus pneumoniae / classification
Streptococcus pneumoniae / isolation & purification*