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A nursery outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus pyoderma originating from a nurse with paronychia
Wen-Tsung Lo1, Chih-Chien Wang, Mong-Ling Chu
1Department of Pediatrics, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|March 29, 2002
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.