Harbouring group B streptococci in a neonatal intensive care unit led to an outbreak among preterm infants

Emma Åberg,Ann Ottosson,Margareta Granlund,Baharak Saeedi,Christina Stamm,Thomas Brune,Ann Tammelin,Stefan Johansson

Harbouring group B streptococci in a neonatal intensive care unit led to an outbreak among preterm infants

2019

Emma Åberg
Ann Ottosson
Margareta Granlund
Baharak Saeedi
Christina Stamm
Thomas Brune
Ann Tammelin
Stefan Johansson

We report a nosocomial outbreak with group B streptococci (GBS) in a level two neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2014. There were five ...

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Endocrinology
Internal medicine
Intensive care medicine
Neonatal intensive care unit
Outbreak
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
Multilocus sequence typing
Pediatrics
nosocomial outbreak
very preterm
Group B
Serotype Ia

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