Neonatal nosocomial pneumococcal infections acquired by patient-to-patient transmission |
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Authors: | Melamed Rimma Greenberg David Landau Daniella Khvatskin Sofia Shany Eilon Dagan Ron |
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Affiliation: | Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. rimmam@bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
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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. |
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