A nursery outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus pyoderma originating from a nurse with paronychia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
Wen-Tsung LoMong-Ling Chu

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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