RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Controlling an outbreak of MRSA in the neonatal unit: a steep learning curve
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
JO Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP F307
OP F310
DO 10.1136/adc.2008.151290
VO 94
IS 4
A1 I A Laing
A1 A P Gibb
A1 A McCallum
YR 2009
UL http://fn.bmj.com/content/94/4/F307.abstract
AB Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause serious infections in the newborn. While audit may show that a neonatal unit’s main cause of infective morbidity is the coagulase negative staphylococcus, health authorities and politicians fear the implications of MRSA and its impact on the general public. MRSA causes mortality and morbidity in other areas of hospitals in the UK and in many other countries and there is an uneasy acceptance that this is now the established norm. However, MRSA in the neonatal unit carries sensitivities which have a huge impact on the reactions of health authorities, politicians and the press.