ArticleEuropean journal of pediatrics1996
Demonstration of mother-to-infant transmission of Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
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- Prevalence of early-onset neonatal infection among newborns of mothers with bacterial infection or colonization: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2015Pooled it
- Risk of early-onset neonatal infection with maternal infection or colonization: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2013Pooled it
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- Molecular Epidemiology Clinical Manifestations, Decolonization Strategies, and Treatment Options of Methicillin-ResistantPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in neonates on admission to a Chinese neonatal intensive care unit.PloS one · 2020Article
- A prospective cohort study ofInfection and drug resistance · 2018Article
- Decolonization to prevent Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infections in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2014Article
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Abstract
unlabelledWe assessed mother-to-infant transmission of Staphylococcus aureus. Anterior nares swabs of 466 pregnant women, vaginal swabs of 305 of these women and anterior nares swabs of 305 6-day-old infants were examined for the presence of S. aureus. The results showed that 7.5% of the vaginal swabs from the pregnant women and 10.1% of the anterior nares swabs from the infants were positive for S. aureus. Six of the 466 pregnant women (1.3%) and 12 of the 305 infants (3.9%) carried methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in the anterior nares site, but none of the vaginal specimens were positive for MRSA. Analysis of SmaI digested chromosomal DNA analysis using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) showed that methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) strains obtained from four pairs of pregnant women and their infants were completely identical, which strongly suggests [correction of suggesting] mother-to-infant transmission of S. aureus.
conclusionThis study elucidated the prevalence of S. aureus carriage among pregnant women and newborn infants. Mother-to-infant infection of S. aureus was demonstrated phenotypically and genetically. PFGE is a useful tool to detect infection routes including mother-to-infant infection.
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