Abstract
We recruited a total of 499 mothers and their 501 newborn babies to investigate whether infants acquire Staphylococcus aureus from their mothers. Of the 22 mother-baby paired S. aureus isolates, 11 (50%) paired isolates were unrelated, 1 pair related, and 10 pairs (45%) indistinguishable. Newborn babies acquire S. aureus colonization soon after birth either from the environment or their mothers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 742-744 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 08 2009 |
Keywords
- Colonization
- Genotyping analysis
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Newborn
- Parturient mother