The evaluation of clusters of hospital infections due to multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium in the neonatal unit: a two-year experience
Articles > Article · 2011
Authors: Hasan AGIN, Fahri Yuce AYHAN, Zeynep Gulay, Gamze GULFIDAN, Nevbahar YASAR, Bayrı ERAÇ, Ilker DEVRIM
TURKISH JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2011, vol 53, pp 517-521
Summary
Seven clusters of hospital infection due to Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium were documented in the neonatology clinic of a children's hospital between April 2002 and March 2004. Eighty-one neonates were infected. Three cases were asymptomatic, 73 cases had gastroenteritis as the only clinical condition, and 5 cases had bacteremia associated with gastroenteritis. All isolates from stool and blood samples (n=86) were identified as Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium.