A nursery outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus pyoderma originating from a nurse with paronychia. |
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| Authors: | Wen-Tsung Lo Chih-Chien Wang Mong-Ling Chu |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, 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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